The space appears at the very narrow time

"Comrade, why are you gone". Are you back Answer frankly. "The answer to this question, Lionel Jospin had selected him for four years and four months. When he decides to make, Saturday afternoon at La Rochelle, her voice is sailing. It seems to relive his elimination in the first round of the 2002 presidential election and the immediate announcement of its "withdrawal from political life."

"Never the people has to apologize for the decisions it takes", recognizes, but he refuses that suspected of having abandoned his party in open country. "If I respect the vote, I responded as a free man, I took me symbolically, physically, and sadly the shock of the defeat, then your chances in were increased for the legislative and non-not impaired battle." The voice breaks and tears are exposed. Lionel Jospin will for the first time admit errors and confess "regret."

And now "Available" since June, Lionel Jospin seek the Socialist nomination He has not responded to this question here. Normal: he hesitates. It to set out Friday evening in the camera of the meeting of his supporters who urged to declare. "Les echos" reveal the content of his remarks. "I'm not sure meet today in a way that satisfies you because I feel myself led to look at things with as much lucidity and honesty as possible", he begins.

Lionel Jospin was the first candidate in the presidential election in 1995, it decided almost alone, "there was considerable risk and it took", but "we are not in 1995", supports it. Then he returns in most raw terms Saturday on his campaign of 2002 carried out by "autopilot": "all this is absolutely not thought collectively" and it does "not concerned" of the disintegration of the plural majority. But now, "it is the configuration policy on which we had founded five years of the Government even more that honourable and honourable, our eyes, it was defeated, and that's who explained the lack of consistency and strength, housing made by myself of this presidential campaign."

Be a choice, not a remedy

When Lionel Jospin withdrew from politics, he assured, it was not "a ruse or a tactic". He is then convinced that could emerge as a presidential candidate. Today, it considers that this is not the case. PIs: "logic would that, in view of the failure of the right to power, it is beaten, and so nothing is less sure." In a context where "the international situation is extremely unstable", where "the situation of the country is worrying", where "the left still continues to be divided", where there is a "crisis of the report of the French policy", former Prime Minister is "concerned": "the manner in which it responds is a way to feed more and worsen" the crisis. The load is Ségolène Royal. As Jospin is also "worried about the situation of the party and its future, in any case, in the short term".

As many good reasons to attend If simple steps: "The least we can say is that I wonder." I do not want to be a candidate against, I do not want to be a candidate in the division, I do not want to be an action against what , but eventually a choice. "The space appears at the very narrow time. We feel close to quitting: "I do not want you to tell you that what you continue to fight, the vision of the policy, the design of the party, democracy and citizens report, forms of our commitment, all which made us fight together (...), this should not be defended, stated", to embody it now, and it will be seen with either to find because later that it will be to regain (...). Regardless of my decision, this combat, me I to am.

What position Lionel Jospin should "discuss with the leaders of the party" in September, it has already programmed an intervention on France 3 on 10 September, then he will see. A doubt assails him still: should it really be a third time "I don't want to not lead you to failure (...)." There are things in which I do not want lead you.