Politics‘Rain man’ to the rescue? France’s ex-president Hollande plots unlikely comeback

Former French president François Hollande, once so unpopular that he abandoned a bid for a second term, is back in the conversation ahead of next year’s presidential race. After a decade of Emmanuel Macron’s “disruptive” presidency, Hollande hopes voters tired of feuding candidates will see him as a safe, if unexciting, choice.

French politicsFrançois Hollandepresidential election

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