The information is reported by Efe, which cites confirmation by Hollande's entourage on France Info radio.
Hollande is expected to speak to the media in the coming hours.
On Thursday, the former head of state fully supported the creation of a new Popular Front, an alliance of several parties on the French left, insisting that it was necessary to go "beyond divergences" given the risk of an executive led by the extreme -right.
Hollande called for a left-wing coalition that defends "a European orientation, the presence of France" in NATO and the recognition of the Hamas attacks in Israel, on October 7, 2023, as terrorist.
This was, according to Efe, a way of distancing itself from Jean-Luc Mélenchon's France Insubmissa (LFI) party, with which it maintains deep differences.
The French left-wing parties, the Socialist Party, the environmentalist EELV, Unsubmissive France and the French Communist Party, announced on Thursday that they had reached a final agreement to create the New Popular Front in the face of early legislative elections.
The date of the elections was also criticized by the former President, who criticized his successor, Emmanuel Macron, for having called them "at the worst time and in the worst circumstances".
The elections will be held in two rounds, on June 30th and July 7th and were called by Macron on Sunday night, after the outstanding victory of the far-right National Union party (RN, its acronym in French) in the European elections. on Sunday.
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