Bernard Cazeneuve and Olivier Faure will they be reconciled at the expense of Nupes? In an interview at Figaro Wednesday, the former Socialist Prime Minister is indeed a step towards the boss of the PS. He calls for “unity” of the Socialists for the Europeans, and says he is ready to “invest in a political family which would have been transformed”.
As the summer days of the PS begin in Blois on Friday, the former Minister of the Interior, who left the party after the creation of the left-wing Nupes alliance where rebellious France is preponderant, seems to be launching an appeal to the party of Olivier Faure, after several months of tension between the two men.
Half-word criticism of Olivier Faure
“I call for meetings of the government and republican left, before the Europeans, so that the socialist family directs its strategy and regains its unity, thus constituting a credible alternative”, explains Bernard Cazeneuve, who regularly denounces “the noise and fury” by LFI. “I am ready to participate in this refoundation, like investing myself in a political family which would have been transformed in depth by taking into account the mistakes made, for which everyone has their share of responsibility”, he adds.
Bernard Cazeneuve affirms, however, that he has “neither to reconnect, nor to (come) reconcile”, with Olivier Faure, even criticizing him half-wordly by evoking “certain comrades (who) practiced the excommunication of their elders faithful and divided their family but (who) nevertheless remain friends”. “We must now move on and gather again,” says the former Prime Minister who created a movement, called The Convention, claiming “10,000” members.
Faced with the risk of an upcoming victory for the RN, Bernard Cazeneuve also believes that “only a united socialist and republican family will be able to prevent it. We must therefore enter a phase where the Socialists and the Republicans see each other, talk to each other, enhance their thoughts, come out of sectarianism, of the old grubs of apparatus”. For him, a single left list for the Europeans would be “a headlong rush”.
“The first to no longer want Nupes is Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself,” he considers. According to him, he “creates the conditions for the explosion of the Nupes by making his partners uncomfortable with great blows of provocation and excess”.