A new face to the right. Since the past fall, the son of the former head of the State has become omnipresent on televisions after years living in the United States. To the point that Louis Sarkozy could descend to the political arena next spring for municipal elections in Neuilly-Sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), led by his father, or even in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes).
“I am not a candidate for the moment, but that does not mean that I do not think about that,” explains the young man, who is now 27 years old, recognizing that “winning a choice is very complicated.”
“An extraordinary talent”
Nicolas Sarkozy’s son and Cécilia Attias, known for being a child in several Paris Match reports and in a campaign clip of her father in the 2000s, is determined to make a name, helped by the benevolence of the right.
“He has an extraordinary talent. It would be very good news if he were committed to France,” the European deputy Nadine Morano, a long minister under Nicolas Sarkozy, judges.
After his son’s career, who was raised mainly by his mother Cécila Attias in the United States, the former president pressed Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the deputies Les Républicins (LR) to receive it.
Rachida Dati, much closer to the former presidential couple, also met him, as did the Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu and even Michel Barnier in Matignon last November.
“It is our little dear for us at this time. I love Retilleau but a little young, it is not bad either,” he even laughs at a deputy of LR, and stressing that “less than half of the members exceed 65 years.”
“His father’s expressions” with “a chirómeno side”
Enough to allow Louis Sarkozy to collect a success of esteem in the applaudimeter during his first real public event during the Christmas night of young Republicans last winter. “We had thought about this meeting with him as a way of embarking on politics,” admits the organizer Emmanuel Brisson.
“He is really speaking, he is not a politician. He has his father’s facial expressions and at the same time he has a chirtle side. He made a lot of selfies for 2 hours at the end of his speech,” he greets the candidate for the presidency of young Lrs.
Obviously anxious to forge an intellectual stature before the high bath of politics, the young man who presents himself as an editorialist in LCI and columnist in the columns of the current values, has just launched a book on Napoleon Bonaparte.
“We can forgive it for more than others”
Anyone who graduated from an American military school also presents himself as an excellent observer in politics throughout the Atlantic. A great admirer of Donald Trump, was even invited to his inauguration in the White House. At the risk of making some teeth locate themselves.
“It has an added value to bring our family. But if you want to represent the right, your positions should not be completely different from ours,” says Deputy Lr Antoine Vermorel-Marques while the French right distrusts the US president.
Other positions of Louis Sarkozy also displease the right, either their call to make a possible pregnancy for others (GPA) or the legalization of all narcotics.
As for certain comments made in the world last February, they could fall under the law. This fan of bodybuilding called “Burning the Algerian Embassy” “If I was on the helm and Algeria arrested Boalem Sansal.”
“We can forgive him for more than others,” said a senator LR.
“It helps to have such a father, of course. It would be lying otherwise,” says Louis Sarkozy.
“I don’t want to” from Neuilly, a chin, why not?
Probably, but for the moment, the entrance to reality on the ground is not easy. Neuilly-Sur-Seine, where Louis Sarkozy could arise, the current mayor Jean-Christophe Fromantin was chosen in 2016 and 2020 in the first round and intends to represent himself.
“I’m not sure you want that,” said former deputy mayor of Levallois Isabelle Balkany, who remained very close to Nicolas Sarkozy.
As for Menton, the local right is very divided and it is likely to go in dispersed order with a national demonstration in ambush. Suffice it to say a true crab basket for the young man who has never directed a field.
But the sky could be cleaning: the current mayor of Menton opened the door to a possible agreement with him at BFMTV Nice Côte d’Azur this Wednesday morning on the occasion of a meeting next week.
Towards a deputy mandate?
Another option on the table: a candidacy in case of possible advance legislative elections or after the 2027 presidential election. “If you want to carry a national message, you will need a mandate as a deputy,” says a former Minister LR.
In 2019, Louis Sarkozy had co -written a job with his mother Cécilia Attias. She trusted there to find in her son “all the ingredients needed for a politician.” “When I see this flame, this desire to debate, this courage, I like it. It scares me for him and I like it,” said his father in CNews in the summer of 2023.
Source: BFM TV
