PARIS –
The left-radical Benoît Hamon that the French socialists last year pushed as a presidential candidate, get off after thirty years the Socialist Party (PS). Hamon said Saturday afternoon in a speech in Paris to a hearing, according to French media, an estimated 11,000 people that he is the PS exit, but does not deviate from the socialist ideal.
Hamon stated in the presidential elections of 23 april deep disappoint with only 6,35 percent of the votes, the lowest score for the party in almost fifty years. According to ex-Education minister Hamon left France turning the page in a new movement to further the political fight. He calls his movement the Movement of the 1st of July.
The established French parties are in turmoil by the emergence of the movement La République en Marche (LREM) of the president and Emmanuel Macron. Macron founded last year, according to him, liberal and social movement, and gathered quickly to 230,000 volunteers or activists all around him. That was 5.5 times more than the then-governing PS members had. The prime minister of the then government, Manuel Valls, left recently for the PS to get behind LREM to scissors.