François Hollande considers that the situation in France is serious and defends an alliance that supports a government

François Hollande warned today that “the situation in France is serious”, given the possibility of the extreme right coming to power and supported the idea of ​​an alliance of other parties to govern, if there is no majority on Sunday. The former French president, between 2012 and 2017, in statements to the public channel France 2, defended the proposal with the argument that “responsibility is needed”, because “the country cannot stop”.

In his opinion, “there must be a compromise solution, at least for a year”, since, after the second round of legislative elections, next Sunday, there can be no new legislative elections during one year, by constitutional determination. Hollande admitted that the programs that divide the political spectrum from conservatives to communists are very different, but insisted that “we have to govern the country”.

In the specific case of the various left-wing formations, Hollande considered that “the left needs to be a solution and not just a barrier” to the extreme right. “The situation in France is serious. The world is looking at us. Europe is worried”, he added.

Hollande was also very critical of President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call these elections, after the defeat he suffered in the European elections on June 9. “I’m not sure that [a decisão de Macron] was the product of a strategy. It seems rather that it was an impulse, extremely negative for the country”, she added.

Hollande, who did not run for a second term in 2017, has now returned to active politics with these elections and won the first round in his district of Corrèze.