Arnaud Montebourg, a presidential campaign that never stops crumbling

The controversy triggered by the proposal of the former minister to block the money transfers from immigrants to some countries continues to shake a very divided campaign team, with key departures.

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It’s sometimes difficult to understand by what the end the campaign of Arnaud Montebourg is taking the water. Since the candidate proposed, Sunday, November 7, to block the private money transfers of immigrants to force the countries to accept the return of their expelled nationals, we know in any case that he has two campaign teams. On one side of the socialists, former socialists and disappointed with the Mélenchonism, and of the other those who wanted to make a campaign bringing together the Republicans of the two banks with the help of a handful of Sarkozysts, swearing by the spirit of the Council National Resistance (CNR) ranging from Gaullists to Communists. Between the two, nothing goes anymore. By steasing these two lines without ever deciding, the candidate, vilified by his competitors for the presidential on the left, is losing support from all sides.

In the organization of his campaign, mainly held by people from the Socialist Party, first. According to our information, Simon the Boulaire, former press counselor at the Paris town hall and in charge of press relations in the “Remontada” campaign, will leave the team. Arnaud Montebourg also considers to resume Valentin Przyuski, former from his ministerial cabinet in Bercy, the presidency of the commitment, the movement backed by his campaign. A departure and possible demotion that have been, for a few days, interpreted by the opposing wing of his team as a victory. But no. Arnaud Montebourg, after having hesitated to throw the sponge, had first decided to stay in a numicy groove, but a few days later he finally ran to the left. In the meantime, he promised all that he was going to clean up and clarify, without satisfying anyone.

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Laurence Rossignol, Vice President of the Senate, Child Friend of the candidate, threatened to leave the campaign if he persisted in proposals with right-handed scent and continued to shiver on immigration and security. “I can not do without Laurence,” he conceded. Of which act. As for the line, after having retroceded more or less clearly on the prohibition of money transfers, Arnaud Montebourg posted, Monday on BFM-TV, a speech on the left rather classic, offensive against the extreme right and without borrowing iconoclasts to the latter. “I have a project that is that of a left man”, the project, he said, “of all who are Republicans and left, social”.

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