The former number two of the PS and ex-Minister of Labor François Rebsamen announced this Saturday that he would vote for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election, “no other” candidate being “more competent”. “It’s an obvious choice,” said the mayor of Dijon, confirming an announcement made daily The Parisian to be published on Sunday.
Emmanuel Macron has “the stature and credibility of a head of state. He has proven it every day while we are at war, ”explained this close friend of former socialist president François Hollande who denies aiming for a ministerial post under Macron. “I ask nothing for myself”.
The rallying to Macronie of this former number two of the PS (1997 to 2008) was hardly in doubt. Last July, he signed a platform of 350 mayors saluting the “courage” of Emmanuel Macron. In October, he spoke of “common causes” with Territories of Progress, which brings together the left wing of the presidential majority. But the Burgundian said he joined the outgoing president with his “lucidity, knowing the negative and positive aspects of the five-year term”. “The policy of whatever it costs is one of the major elements that made me evolve”, he added, welcoming that France had become “one of the most protective countries in Europe by paying the 8.5 million French people “unemployed during the Covid-19 crisis.
The socialist, who in 2018 accused Emmanuel Macron of “favoring the richest”, however, remains opposed to the abolition of wealth tax, as well as the reform of unemployment insurance to “differences in allowances which do not are not acceptable” and which “will have to be remedied. Thus, it is to “weigh” on a new Macron five-year term that François Rebsamen wants to create an “independent social democratic movement” after the presidential election. “We cannot leave Emmanuel Macron alone with the right,” he believes. To do this, “personalities will join me”, he assures without giving names. But “I am and I remain a socialist”, he hammered.