Presidential 2022: Arnaud Montebourg announces his candidacy – archyde

Former Minister of Productive Recovery Arnaud Montebourg officially announced his candidacy for the presidential election, Saturday, September 4, in his hometown of Clamecy (Nièvre). Advocating the “remountada of France” (in industrial matters, employment, environment or democracy), he hopes to transcend the left-right divide by defending France from “Sub-prefectures” and without party support.

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Saturday afternoon in Clamecy, in a small village hall in front of about 300 people, he heard “From this France which is the witness of the collapse of the whole country”, he confided to Journal of the Center, being the champion of “Sub-prefectures” put forward by “Yellow vests”. “There is a movement of society, of rejection of the city, and it is this movement, the return to the land, that I want to put in power”, had explained the future candidate.

The former lawyer, 58 years old, will propose, in his themes and measures, a speech heir to the “First left” by François Mitterrand and Jean-Pierre Chevènement, taking the space he considers gaping between the “rebellious” Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the socialist Anne Hidalgo, affirms his entourage.

However, Mr. Montebourg will campaign by avoiding placing himself on the left-right axis, like Mr. Mélenchon in 2017. The “rebellious” have had time to see their rival coming in recent months: “It will never be the third time that he has declared himself. There is the Montebourg of January, that of April, that of September… ”, exclaims, hilariously, Alexis Corbière, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who regrets: “He should have been by our side. He sees that Mélenchon is a little lower and he thinks he can pocket us. He’s testing… I hope it won’t end in support of the PS. “

Bet on a “cultural victory”

Like the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, the left-wing staffs do not hesitate to mock the candidacy of the former socialist, whom they say without a party or finances to support him. What condemn it according to them to be only one “Mushroom of the month of September”, as quickly disappeared as declared.

The question of the financing of the campaign is in the process of being settled, assures the entourage of Arnaud Montebourg. As for the supports, there will be no “Shallot race” for some “Elected officials who only have an impact on politicians and the media”, underlines the entourage of Mr. Montebourg. The former minister, who wants to stay away from the PS apparatus, will not participate in any primary, he who lost two, in 2012 and 2017.

On the other hand, the convinced from the first hour Laurence Rossignol and Mickaël Vallet, both senators, and François Cocq, who will represent the fringe of the disappointed with Melenchonism, will make the trip on Saturday. On the activist side, the Engagement movement, which can be joined without paying a membership fee, claims 4,500 members.

To reach the second round, the former minister hopes above all to capitalize on what he considers to be a “Cultural victory”, by developing themes cleared up several years ago and now central to the public debate, such as the questioning of globalization, European protectionism and the VI^e Republic.

Arnaud Montebourg, who claims to be able to speak with the right and had initiated a dialogue, which remained without follow-up, with Xavier Bertrand, however, has a long way to go. He aims for nothing but to be “In the second round” of the presidential election. But for the moment, it does not exceed 5% in the few polls that have tested it, in a context of extreme left-wing competition, between LFI, the Greens, Anne Hidalgo and the Communist candidate Fabien Roussel who also hears poaching on the lands of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and is already calling on Arnaud Montebourg to join him.