Hollande says he will not run for second term as France president

It is the first run through in decades that an officeholder French president has not looked for re-decision. Hollande is the most disliked president on record.

"I am mindful today of the hazard that going down a course that would not assemble adequate support would involve, so I have chosen not to be a competitor in the presidential race," a solemn looking Hollande said in a broadcast address on Thursday.

Every late survey have anticipated that neither Hollande nor whatever other Communist competitor would make it past the first round of the decision. They anticipate a keep running off fight between focus right hopeful Francois Fillon and the pioneer of the far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen.

The Left is profoundly isolated as it methodologies the decision. A few different Communists, including previous economy serve Arnaud Montebourg, have said they will participate in the gathering's primaries in January.

Another of Hollande's ex-priests, Emmanuel Macron, and radical torch Jean-Luc Melenchon have said they will keep running in the presidential race however without partaking in the primaries.

There has been strain amongst Hollande and his PM Manuel Valls, who brought the likelihood up in an end of the week meet that he may keep running in the primaries against his manager.

Hollande beat preservationist occupant Nicolas Sarkozy in a race in May 2012 after an exemplary leftwing effort in which he focused on huge business and swore to raise charges for high workers.

In any case, his ubiquity soon started to decrease with an apparent absence of administration and flip-flounders on key issues, especially impose change, which overwhelmed numerous on the left. His prevalence has been undermined by resolutely high unemployment and pale monetary development.

Grassroots supporters were further distanced by an ace business switch in 2014, a faltering over security changes, and by work laws that brought thousands out onto the avenues in dissents early this year.

Hollande's picture was additionally hit by a progression of correspondence mis-steps, including an extremely open split with his ex-accomplice Valerie Trierweiler and pictures of him going to visit his new accomplice on a bike.

The issue that crosses over into intolerability for some of his nearest supporters was the production of a book by two Le Monde writers in October. In meetings with them, Hollande censured a few of his partners and others from judges to footballers, in remarks that were broadly scrutinized as rash and sick befitting a president. He additionally revealed that French mystery administrations had done four focused on killings on his requests.