“Rumors” which could finally take shape… The former socialist president François Hollande, who will be at the meeting of PS candidate Anne Hidalgo in Limoges on Tuesday evening, “does not rule out” running for the legislative elections in the first constituency. of Corrèze, said his entourage.
After having denied at the end of January the intentions attributed to the former head of state to present himself to the legislative elections in the first constituency of Corrèze, on June 12 and 19, the same source now declares that “it is not excluded”, confirming information from Opinionwithout further details.
“Four Stripes Game” by François Hollande
The entourage of the former head of state affirmed in January that these rumors around a possible candidacy for the legislative elections were “part of the speculations, rumors and fantasies of each other, but not of the reflection of François Hollande, who is not at all in this process”.
A Socialist Party executive, however, told AFP on Tuesday that “at this stage”, he believed “little” in the likelihood of a candidacy from the former president. Other socialist executives are part of a “four band game” of François Hollande, who was tried at the end of January to replace Anne Hidalgo in the race for the Elysée, because of the bad polls, but who “didn’t failed to demonstrate that he was the ideal candidate”.
The Corrèze “by hand” of the ex-president
Corrèze being “in the hand” of the ex-president, it is “not impossible”, even if “the constituency delegates have already been appointed”, “that he has put a straw candidate in his place to “move more freely,” say these sources.
In the first constituency of Corrèze, it is the regional councilor Pascal Cavitte who is currently appointed. But the appointment of constituency delegates is not worth investiture, they recall. This is a first step, before possible alliances with other left-wing parties.
François Hollande, cold with the direction of the PS, will support Tuesday evening in Limoges Anne Hidalgo, credited with approximately 2% of the voting intentions. The ex-president had until then been little involved in Anne Hidalgo’s campaign, with the exception of a meeting during a trip by the candidate to Tulle, her Corrèze stronghold.