The campaign is in full swing within the Les Républicains (LR) party. A few weeks before the election of the president of this political formation in December, a personality is being debated: Nicolas Sarkozy. Bruno Retailleau, LR’s congressional candidate, has thus repeatedly criticized the head of state in recent days.
Éric Ciotti, also a candidate for head of rue de Vaugirard, sings another song.
“We had great presidents of the Republic. Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy led us to victory,” declared this Wednesday the deputy of the Maritime Alps on the waves of Europe 1.
“Let’s not erase all that”
The chosen one also explains that he prefers the “duty to invent” to the “duty to inventory”. An allusion to the column published in The express this week by Bruno Retailleau, François-Xavier Bellamy and Julien Aubert. Which, seeking to “do an inventory job” of their political family, criticized the results of the mandates of Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) and Jacques Chirac (1995-2007). “If the right had been, in power, really up to its promises, France would be better off today,” the three elected LRs write in particular.
“What’s the point of putting that back on the table?” asked Eric Ciotti on Europe 1.
“Let’s look forward. I want to unite our political family, I don’t want to exclude anyone. I was excited by the election of Nicolas Sarkozy! It’s one of the biggest emotions of my political life. Later. Don’t erase everything.” that”, developed the recent finalist of the presidential primaries of LR.
A way of not offending the members of LR who still carry Nicolas Sarkozy in their hearts. The day before, Rachida Dati also came to the fore to defend the former head of state with whom she was Minister of Justice between 2007 and 2009. In the columns of Figarothe mayor of LR of the 7th district of Paris, called on her people not to “make a clean slate of the past”.
“We should be proud of our past without turning it into a limit but into a springboard. Nicolas Sarkozy is one of the best, it’s up to us to do better tomorrow,” he added.
The latter is part of the voluminous furniture of LR since the last presidential elections. During this election, he stayed away from the campaign of Valérie Pécresse, the LR candidate, and clearly called for a vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round, when his party was content to give the only voting instructions. “Marine Le Pen cannot be voiced.” According to information from Parisiandid not withdraw his LR card in 2022.
“If he wants to leave LR, let him do it”
Before the publication of the tribune in The expressBruno Retailleau has openly criticized Nicolas Sarkozy on several occasions in order to better assert his political line – more conservative and less liberal than the latter’s – for the LR congress.
The leader of the LR senators in the Senate launched a first attack last Tuesday: “If Nicolas Sarkozy wants to leave LR, let him do itI’m not going to remember it”, he dropped into the microphone of Europe 1. A criticism that he later justified with an echo published in L’Express Some days ago. 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. “When they look for me, they find me,” he joked. Public Senate last Thursday, before stating, more seriously, that Nicolas Sarkozy’s “attitude” “greatly disappointed during the presidential elections”.
Source: BFM TV
