Bernard Cazeneuve launched Wednesday, during his greetings to the press, in a eulogy of "loyalty" in politics, and recalled his "total loyalty" to François Hollande, without directly mentioning the primary organized by the PS.
“Of course I have loyalties. For me, politics and loyalty are things that go together. And in saying this I am not saying anything against anyone, I am simply saying what I believe in, "said the Prime Minister during his speech at Matignon, in response to the speech by the President of the Ministerial Press Association, Benjamin Sportouch. .
“I believe in loyalty because that's my temperament. I believe in fidelity because it is my conception of institutions. I believe in fidelity because I think that in political life, when you have made a commitment to a personality who trusted you, you must, in the exercise of your responsibility, assume with the greatest rigor and dignity possible the responsibility entrusted to you", continued the Prime Minister.
“I'm sorry that it may seem considerably old-fashioned (…) but it's my way of being and my conception of political life,” he said.
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Cazeneuve described himself as “very modestly at the head of the majority, in total loyalty to the President of the Republic (…) and I do not mean, in the period in which we find ourselves (…) behave differently”.
"I have enough full days for the time being (...) and they are enough to occupy all of my mind", he also declared. The Prime Minister announced a few weeks ago in the JDD that he would not support any candidate during the primary organized by the PS, the first round of which takes place on Sunday.
“I have to make a confession to you”: “I have less passion for my person than for the exercise of the State. "I feel doomed to never live up to your expectations", but "I take my risk". “There may also be other actors in political life who fulfill your pyrotechnic aspirations, your pronounced taste for live performance,” he told the press.
As for his future after Matignon, "you know, retirement at 54 is not the slope of the most recent reforms," he said.
(AFP dispatch)