While the Republicans party reaffirmed its independence vis-à-vis the outgoing President, his predecessor to the Elysee disadvates his political family, inviting the exceeding of the partisan systems.
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After the historical defeat of Valérie Pécresse in the presidential election, it is a new thunderclap for the Republicans (LR). In a message on his Facebook account, published on Tuesday, April 12, Nicolas Sarkozy has supported Emmanuel Macron for the second round of the presidential election and pleaded for the “gathering”, inviting the exceeding partisan systems.
According to him, the outgoing president “has the necessary experience in the face of a serious international crisis” and “his economic project puts the valuation of work at the center of all his priorities”. Finally, he writes, “his European commitment is clear and unambiguous”.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who refused to support Valérie Pécresse before the first round of the vote, go further, brutally disavowing his political family. The day before, at a Political Office of LR, the right party had chosen to call barring in Marine Le Pen without giving a voting instruction in favor of Emmanuel Macron. “We are never mistaken one choosing clarity and constancy,” Tackle the former President of the Republic. “The interest of France must be our only guide,” he adds, critically critical of the median position drawn by LR.
especially, the former tenant of the Elysée, who invites to answer “to the call to the rally of Emmanuel Macron for the purpose of the presidential election”, opens the door to a broader recomposition for the post In the wake of outgoing president, who wishes to found “a great political movement of unity and action”, beyond differences in sensitivity. Again, Nicolas Sarkozy loose LR who, at his strategic meeting on Monday, had reaffirmed his independence vis-à-vis the outgoing President, seeing the condition of his political survival. “A new era is coming, arguing Nicolas Sarkozy. It will require deep changes. It will be necessary to get habits and partisan reflexes.”
“You have to be independent”
As LR tried to shut up his divisions and to display a unity, even precarious, in the aftermath of the historic defeat of the right to the presidential election, the former head of state takes the risk of creating serious Turbulence on the right, or even implode the political family he led before arriving at the Elysee.
Does this position take a position to switch to Emmanuel Macron of many elected LRs between the presidential election and the legislative? At the end of the political office, Monday, a handful of elected representatives did not hide their frustration before the decisions taken by the party. But the member Guillaume Larrivé, who dreams of a coalition agreement with Macron, was the only one to pronounce against the motion voted. The mayor of Meaux, Jean-François Cope, rallied in the end, after defending the idea of ”a new government pact”. He also sees an output exit for LR, “stuck as a slice of ham in a sandwich between extremes and macrony”. Same willingness to respond favorably to the call to the rally of Emmanuel Macron on the side of the former communicator of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee, Franck Louvrier. “If it is elected, Macron will not be able to pass the reform of retreats alone,” explains the Mayor of La Baule (Loire-Atlantique), a supporter of inventing a “coalition to the German”.
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