Delivered. It is a book from beyond the grave. Two years after bidding farewell to France to launch – in vain – in the conquest of Barcelona, former Prime Minister Manuel Valls is already back and justifying himself: ” Go. Return. I assume (…). I claim to be able to change my mind, like anyone. “ The one who was François Hollande’s most popular minister – then the most hated – and hoped to compete in the 2017 presidential election – before being beaten by Benoît Hamon in the primary – lost everything, in a few months.
The post-2017 was a nightmare – “I almost died”, he repeats: rallied to Macron, in defiance of the word given, he is perceived as a “Traitor” -, Valls is narrowly elected deputy in his stronghold of Evry with an LRM label that he had to beg, on his knees, treated in «Paria By the macronists. The flight to Spain, in 2018, abandoning his mandate and France, was a matter of survival, he says: “I was on the verge of breaking up, a kind of psychological annihilation. I could break. “
The past continues to haunt him. He criticizes the“Inertia” and the ” weakness “ from Holland, who did not succeed in making “The spirit of January 11”, the day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Or who has so badly lived the function. He tells how the parents of a gendarme killed in the performance of his duties attacked the head of state “Like you yell at a guy in the street.” It does not extend much to Macron, whose “Duplicity” : “Emmanuel played on our naivety, our credulity, our weaknesses, our errors, the collapse of the PS”, he writes.
Rejection of Eric Zemmour and Assa Traoré
In this hybrid book that combines political narrative and intimate confessions, Valls talks about his new life in Spain with the rich heiress Susana Gallardo, his beloved mother, Luisa, and his sister Giovanna, long addicted to heroin. He also reviews, and it is often somewhat agreed, his French affections, from Robert Badinter to the comedian Blanche Gardin, via Gérard Depardieu, Romain Gary, Georges Clemenceau, or even a passion for football.
Introducing himself as “Pure product of republican integration”, the former Prime Minister defends his vision of the Republic and secularism, deplores that the “Race war comes to replace class war”, and point it “Pas de deux diabolique” between Eric Zemmour on one side and Assa Traoré on the other, “Two arms of the identity pincer”.
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