“Toothless” Holland injured retorts to “lie” to … – Les Echos

In an interview with Nouvel Observateur, Francois Hollande denied “without teeth,” recalls his humble origins and his political commitment

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How to stop the controversy over the “no-teeth”? After the publication of the book by Valerie Trierweiler, who introduced such as cynical and contemptuous of the poor, Francois Hollande has so far refused to frontally attack his ex-girlfriend.

He simply responded last Friday at a press conference after the NATO summit in Newport, Wales, saying refuses to have questioned the commitment Lifetime

While his entourage rallied -. Ségolène Royal would have met Michel Sapin, Stéphane Le Foll and François Rebsamen on the eve of the release of firebrand – the head of the State, he is limping along. In an interview with “Nouvel Observateur” gathered Monday at the Elysee and published Thursday, Francois Hollande says so “injured” by this “lie.”

“This attack on poor, poor, I experienced as a blow to my whole life. (…) In all my duties in my mandates, I have thought that help represent only those who suffer, “defends the former first secretary of the Socialist Party.

Francois Hollande is it still a leftist? , Question some. A charge first made by his former Housing Minister Cecile Duflot, who said he was “disappointed” in his book about his time in government, and repeated on the occasion of the appointment of Macron, a senior and former banker Business at Rothschild, the Ministry of Economy.

Grandparents humble origins

So he is challenged by a member of the majority, Francois Hollande is working to rebuild its image as a president “normal” again tarnished. No, he has “never been on the side of the powerful,” he says in “Nouvel Observateur”, even going so far as to invoke its “roots”: a maternal grandfather “little tailor Savoyard origin” who “lived with his family in a modest two-bedroom apartment in Paris” and his paternal grandfather “schoolteacher, from a poor peasant family in northern France.”

One way to answer the charges of his ex-girlfriend on his lifestyle. “He loves the great restaurants, major hotels, do not eat my strawberries if they are not” gariguettes “does not taste the potatoes if they are not from Noirmoutier, and put straight in the bin if meat it is under vacuum, “she wrote. Paris Match journalist will even claim that the nickname “Cosette” in reference to his social origins.

Avoiding yet to attack his ex-girlfriend , preferring to let it appear as a woman hurt and vengeful, Francois Hollande applies to minimize controversy. “I’m not a demagogue or a comedian. The French expect anything else from me. They want results. My feelings are not interested. They are right, “he says. While growth has been revised downwards for 2014, Francois Hollande will indeed be expected to turn.