Arnaud Montebourg is considering a presidential candidacy without going through a primary

Former Socialist Minister of the Economy Arnaud Montebourg will announce his candidacy for the April 2022 presidential election on September 4, during a speech in his hometown of Clamecy (Nièvre), his entourage announced on Monday August 16. . Also according to this source, he will then go, on September 25, to the lands of his former constituency of Frangy-en-Bresse (Saône-et-Loire) to launch his campaign on the ground.

“The Covid crisis has raised the concerns of the French the themes that it has focused on for nearly twenty years, in particular the de-globalization, the protection of our industries and our jobs and the [volonté] to change from the hyper-presidential regime of the V^e Republic “, justified this source, confirming a information from Release and Journal of Saône-et-Loire.

At 58, the founder of the Engagement movement will detail “A candidacy which analyzes the company in two sociological blocks: the popular block, majority, but split between the socialists, Mélenchon and Le Pen, against the bourgeois and reactionary blocks, rather than” the left against the right “”, she clarified. In June, the former socialist had pleaded for a “Mixed policy”, because, according to him, “The country is right on the regal; on the left on social issues and the economy ”.

Refusal to go through a primary

According to his entourage, Mr. Montebourg “Is the only one who can propose to the left to meet beyond the historical parties”, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise, LFI) is already a presidential candidate and the Socialist Party (PS) pushes the candidacy of Anne Hidalgo, while the environmentalist primary, in mid-September, must also see a candidate emerge. The former minister of productive recovery (2012-2014) does not want to go through a primary, “Useless without the participation of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, always according to his entourage.

Asked about the 500 sponsorships required to validate Arnaud Montebourg’s candidacy, the former minister’s entourage told Agence France-Presse that it was “A non-subject”. “It doesn’t worry us”, we assured. For funding, it will be “Brought up in due time”.

Its pre-campaign, launched at the end of 2020 with the publication from his book The Commitment, at Grasset, has not yet allowed him to take off in the few polls that have tested a possible candidacy. 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. Since then, the former lawyer has founded several companies, especially in the agri-food sector, producing honey, almonds and ice cream.