The former Socialist Prime Minister criticizes the “complacency with regard to communitarianism, which gangrene certain movements”, in a long interview at the media “The right to live” published Thursday, December 30th.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve estimates that a “large part of the left has lost” in a “communitarianism” involving “the secularism and unity of the Republic”, in a long interview at the media the right to live Posted Thursday, December 30
In question about the possibility for the left to triumph of the populations, the one who was also the former Minister of the Interior asserts: “It will only believe that in breaking clearly with the Cancel Culture line, of the Wokism, complacency with regard to the communitarianism, who gang certain movements and who are incompatible with the conception that I am from the institution, unity and indivisibility of the Republic. ”
To argue that a “large part of the left has lost”, Bernard Cazeneuve notably refers to the manifestation “against Islamophobia” of November 2019 in Paris, to which several left officials have participated, especially “Insoired”, ecologists and extreme left.
“We desperately shortly behind minorities”
But he also criticizes, without name, the former candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) for the regional 2021 in Île-de-France, Audrey Pulvar, who had declared desirable that a “white is” when Meetings on racial discrimination: “It is the very negation of republican thought and the universalism that it bears as a hope.”
Bernard Cazeneuve brocade The Think Tank Terra Nova which, for the 2012 presidential election, had recommended to the PS to address “minorities like as many reference categories”, explaining: “We desperately behind minorities like After as much clientele, seeking at all costs to seduce them, with the concern of a short-term electoral benefit. “Gold, according to him,” a political party does not have to speak to segments in particular of the company but to the whole nation “.
He who has been a time presented to be candidate for the presidential election also gives his vision of a possible “union” on the left, currently pushed by the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo and the former minister Christiane Taubira, who ” consider “an application. “If there is no force, there can be no union,” he says. When everything is weak, the addition of insignificant particles inevitably leads to removing small electoral scores of smaller scores. Still. “
“The left must show clarity and loyalty to its values,” reacted Michaël Delafosse, the Mayor, Socialist, Montpellier (Hérault), In Tweetant The interview of Bernard Cazeneuve:” Republican universalism is the path of equality, reaffirmation without Ambiguity of secularism is the guarantee of the Concorde. The left must assert itself by carrying the emancipatory republican ideals. “. “Soon columnist on CNews?”, As for him, wrote on Twitter Manuel Bompard, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign director, “insou” candidate in the presidential election.