“Don’t wipe the slate clean.” In an interview in FigaroRachida Dati went against the grain of Bruno Retailleau. “We must be proud of our past without it being a limit but a springboard. Nicolas Sarkozy is one of the best, it’s up to us to do better tomorrow,” declared the one who was Minister of Justice between 2007 and 2009, during the five-year mandate of the former head of state.
A response to the positions of Bruno Retailleau, also a candidate for the presidency of the Les Républicains party. The leader of the LR senators has criticized Nicolas Sarkozy on several occasions in recent days. A bad strategy according to Rachida Dati.
“The challenge, whoever is the president, is that tomorrow he is able to convince the majority of French people that the right is useful to the country. That will not be done by destroying the past”, considers the mayor of LR of the district 7 of Paris on the columns of the Figaro.
Fee renewed multiple times
Bruno Retailleau fired a first bullet last Tuesday: “If Nicolas Sarkozy wants to leave LR, let him do it, I will not stop him,” he told the Europa 1 microphone. An attack that he then justified with an echo that appeared on L’Express Some days ago. In fact, the weekly reported that “a right-wing elected official, whom he recently received [Nicolas Sarkozy] launched that he would leave this party completely if the Vendéen became its president”.
Subsequently, Bruno Retailleau renewed his position. first in Public Senate, last Thursday. “When they look for me, they find me,” he joked, before assuring more seriously that Nicolas Sarkozy’s “attitude” “was very disappointing during the presidential election.”
The latter had stayed away from the campaign of Valérie Pécresse, the LR candidate, and had clearly called for a vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round, when his party had been content to give the only instructions to vote: “No voice can be chosen for Marine Le Pen”.
More than a simple response to an attack, Bruno Retailleau uses this sequence to affirm his political line, more conservative and less liberal than that of Nicolas Sarkozy. In a column published in The express On Monday and signed jointly by François-Xavier Bellamy and Julien Aubert, Bruno Retailleau criticizes Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year mandate. With his companions, he believes that “nothing was assumed until the end” during his tenure. And affirm: “If the right had been, in power, really up to its promises, France would be better off today.”
Source: BFM TV
