Presidential election 2022: Arnaud Montebourg is on the starting line – archyworldys

It’s an open secret: Arnaud Montebourg had never entirely given up on his presidential ambition. But his two successive failures in the primary of the left, in 2011 and in 2017, then the collapse of the Socialist Party (PS) following the election of Emmanuel Macron will have, for a time, put aside the inclinations of the ex-minister of productive recovery of François Hollande. Saturday September 4, in Clamecy, his hometown, in this Nièvre so dear to François Mitterrand, and eight months before the presidential election, the former slinger must announce his candidacy, with the aim of bringing together a scattered left.

The former lawyer converted into French entrepreneurship – in the manufacture of honey and in the production of almonds and “farmhouse” ice creams – has matured his project over the past year. “Before the summer, there was some hesitation at all political and personal levels. He hesitated a lot “, testifies the former Secretary of State Thierry Mandon, his friend and political support. In July, his decision crystallized around a candidacy for the start of the school year.

Arnaud Montebourg would hear “Take advantage of the very changing climate on the left” for “Make the hole” in this political re-entry placed under the sign of the dispersion of candidatures, based on proposals combining the “made in France”, ecology and social, and commitments on the regal against the current of the left “woke”, which he considers unrealistic. Another argument of his campaign: his project of VI^e Republic, supposed to respond to the democratic crisis and the continuous rise in abstention, of which Jean-Luc Mélenchon was also the paragon and that Arnaud Montebourg has been defending for years.

“It’s quite singular and original, people who have stopped politics to do something else without choosing comfort or ease”, appreciates one of his supporters, the senator (PS) of the Oise and former minister, Laurence Rossignol, in tune with a close guard who wishes to escape the myth of the candidate ” at all costs “.

Break the announced duel

His book The Commitment, published in November 2020 (Grasset), a behind-the-scenes account of his years in the heart of power, had been a first opportunity to reconnect with public opinion while formulating a number of proposals on reindustrialisation, his hobbyhorse since his departure from government in 2014. In the sights: his successor at the time in Bercy, Emmanuel Macron, according to him representative of the elite, qualified as “Bourgeois bloc” the opposite of “Reactionary bloc”, embodied by Marine Le Pen.

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