Jean-Yves Le Drian’s critical eye on his former party. “Since the presidential election of 2017, that is to say from the logic of the rebels who deeply disturbed the five-year term of François Hollande, the PS in a way has withdrawn from the (governmental) history of the left ”, affirmed on France Info the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
For the one who left the PS in 2017 to rally Emmanuel Macron, the party “is no longer the referent from which coalitions are created. He is no longer the pilot of the left ”. “There are others, environmentalists, rebellious France,” he said, concluding that the PS “has withdrawn in a certain way from the competition”.
“A lot of courage” to Hidalgo
“So Anne Hidalgo tries to bring (him) back … I wish him good luck,” he added about the mayor of Paris who formalized his candidacy on Sunday, specifying that he wanted the president of the Republic is a candidate for re-election and that he “fully supports” him.
“I consider that social democracy has found in the initiatives of Emmanuel Macron a certain credibility, a certain strength”, explained the minister. “I think we need to build up a global political force with all the support for Emmanuel Macron in a democratic, popular, European party,” he said. “There is En Marche, there is Modem, Agir, Territoires de Progrès of which I am a member,” he added, citing the various components of the majority.