As a “price to pay” characterized her withdrawal of left-wing candidates from around 130 constituencies to reduce the chances of the far right prevailing, the former president of France and parliamentary candidate for the new Popular Front, François Hollande.
The former French president predicted that after the second round of parliamentary elections there would be a more balanced left, with more socialists and environmentalists, which could gradually provide solutions and not just put up obstacles.
“Neither the right time nor the right way”
Asked about Macron’s decision to call early parliamentary elections, Hollande expressed doubts that the French president had a strategy in mind and called it a “cerebral impulse, extremely damaging for the country.” It was neither the right time nor the right way to go to the polls, François Hollande said.
Finally, he stated that the democratic faction in France was reformed through processes that were “painful for the governing party and transparent for the left parties”.
Source: AMPE