For Cécile Duflot, “Holland is the president of person” – Le Figaro

SCAN THE POLICY – Former Minister of Housing EELV leads charge against the executive in his book From the inside, journey to the land of disillusionment (Fayard) , to be published on August 25.

A bombshell. Since she decided to leave the government, the environmentalist former housing minister remained rather silent. It reserved likely to put pen to paper and tell his vision behind the scenes of the quinquennium. In his forthcoming book on August 25 From the inside, journey to the land of disillusionment co-written with journalist JDD Cécile Amar, whose Le Nouvel Observateur publish good stories, Cécile Duflot back on his two years in government. And the opportunity to settle scores with the executive couple.

“ By dint of wanting to be the president of all, Francois Hollande has been able to be the president of one ” punishes ecologist. “ Without wanting to be a leftist president, he never found nor its social base nor his supporters. This is not a question of temperament is the result of a succession of often unexpected choices and sometimes incoherent them . It is not soft, but sometimes there is hesitating. He knows decide, but he prefers when the decision comes by itself, or when everyone agrees. It’s more comfortable, “t judge it. It recognizes all the same “calm” the Head of State as being both “his main quality” and a “critical to quality level of responsibility.”

And this “disappointment” in which the Minister Cecile Duflot said he traveled for two years, the woman “liberated” expressed as follows: “ I did the same way that millions of French. I voted Holland, believed in him, and I was disappointed … I have tried to help him keep his promises, to induce him to change people’s lives, to push to lead a real political left. And I failed. So I left, “laments environmentalist. Pin it in passing the economic policy of the president, “Hollande against the debt, it’s worse than Sisyphus and his rock. A display speech not acted on. We had to take the 3% deficit, we did not. ” And concluding that “François Hollande spends his time setting goals that can not hold. The effect is devastating. “

” In the line he plays, I never recognize me. It is contrary to … what I am “

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, the main cause of the departure of the government of Cécile Duflot, is not spared either. There are none in their first skirmish. “I do not know enough Manuel Valls and Nicolas Sarkozy to see if they look alike,” she concedes initially. “But I know that he was the first Interior Minister Francois Hollande uses similar recipes. It deploys the same techniques (…). The figure is easy: the guy left holding speeches right, it’s a little green defends nuclear. In line he plays, I never recognize me. It is contrary to … what I am “, then hammers the member for Paris. “By dint of repeating the arguments and words from the right (…) what is the difference right? A membership card in a different party? Failure to declare all three sentences’ I left? Formally, factually, what issues between them? “Is she still wonders. Before you accuse them outright (Manuel Valls and the right) to have “removed the left.”