The declaration of the former President of the Republic comes to add a new chapter to the crisis through the Republicans from the sinking of Valérie Pécresse in the first round of the presidential election.
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It may be spring, but heaven does not want to disengage for Republicans (LR). After the historical defeat of Valérie Pécresse in the first round of the presidential election, it is a new thunderclap that comes to shake the right left. In a message on his Facebook account, published Tuesday, April 12, Nicolas Sarkozy has supported Emmanuel Macron for the second round and pleaded for the “gathering”, inviting to overcoming 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 poll, now goes further, brutally disavowing his political family and his leaders. The day before, LR had chosen to call a barrage in Marine Le Pen without giving a voting instruction in favor of the outgoing State head. “We are never mistaken by choosing clarity and consistency,” Tackle the former President of the Republic. “The interest of France must be our only guide,” he adds, criticizes the median position adopted by his political training.
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 the outgoing President, who wishes to found “a great political movement of unity and action”, beyond the differences in sensitivity. Again, Nicolas Sarkozy LRC who, at his strategic meeting, had reaffirmed on Monday, 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 profound changes. It will be necessary to get habits and partisan reflexes.”
With this message, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was received by Emmanuel Macron to evoke these great maneuvers a dozen days ago, potentially opens a major crisis within Republicans. The party that attempted to erase its divisions in the aftermath of the defeat risks again to cross a strong zone of turbulence. By launching a call to respond favorably to the hand stretched by Emmanuel Macron, the former president could lead to his wake the elected seduced by the idea, but who did not dare to express it as openly until then.
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