After Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a new figure of the left will make his entry into the list of candidates for the presidential election of April 2022. This is none other than the former Minister of the Economy, Arnaud Montebourg . According to his entourage, the founder of the Engagement movement intends to make this announcement on September 4, during a speech in his hometown of Clamecy (Nièvre).
“The Covid crisis has raised the concerns of the French the themes that it has focused on for nearly 20 years, including de-globalization, the protection of our industries and our jobs and the (will) to change from the hyper- Presidential of the Fifth Republic ”, justified this source, confirming information from Release and Journal of Saône-et-Loire.
“Popular bloc” against “bourgeois bloc”
Arnaud Montebourg will detail “an application which analyzes the company in two sociological blocks: the popular block, majority but split between the socialists, Mélenchon and Le Pen, against the bourgeois block rather than + the left against the right +”, has t -she specified. According to his entourage, he “is the only one who can propose to the left to meet beyond the historical parties”, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) is already a presidential candidate and the PS pushes the candidacy of Anne Hidalgo, while the environmentalist primary, in mid-September, must also see a candidate emerge.
“Arnaud, he has a human advantage”, one would like to believe among his relatives: “He has been in real working and professional life for several years, and sees” real people “” via the companies that the former lawyer founded in 2017, particularly in the agro-food sector.
No socialist primary for Arnaud Montebourg
The 58-year-old former Minister of Productive Recovery (2012-2014) does not want to go through a primary, “useless without the participation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, according to his entourage. In June, the former socialist had pleaded for a “mixed policy” because, according to him, “the country is on the right on the regal, (and) on the left on the social and the economy”.
Asked about the 500 sponsorships required to validate his candidacy, the entourage of the former minister indicated that it was “a non-subject”. “It does not worry us”, we assured. For funding, it will be “brought up in due course”.
No poll favorites
Arnaud Montebourg will then go on September 25 to the lands of his former constituency of Frangy-en-Bresse (Saône-et-Loire) to really launch his campaign. The same city where he had, in 2014, alongside Benoît Hamon, then Minister of Education, openly criticized the policies of François Hollande, just before being thanked by the government.
Its pre-campaign, initiated at the end of 2020, has not yet allowed it to take off in the few polls that have tested it. Arnaud Montebourg had already tried his luck for the presidential elections of 2012 and 2017. He failed each time in the first round of the socialist primaries.