Will Dominique de Vilepin be a candidate for presidential elections? Until now, the suspense remains complete, when the former Jacques Chirac prime minister has experienced renewed popularity for several months. Not deciding this question, the person in question anticipates certain problems, promising this Sunday, May 25 in BFMTV “Total Transparency” with respect to his advice activities if he became president of the Republic.
He assured that they do not include lobbying and that there is no “conflict of interest.” “My clients are companies, especially French companies that work for the international,” he explained, refusing to give the names of his clients of his consulting company, because “in the hands of the confidentiality of contracts.”
“If I give the name of a French client with whom I am obliged by a contract, when there are confidentiality clauses, I break this clause. I am not in a position to do it today,” said Dominique de Vilepin, who said “not to work with Gulf countries.”
“Much humility”
If the former Foreign Minister refused to confirm that he was a candidate for the Elysée, he admitted to ask if he could be head of state.
“This question, I have asked myself for years. It is very difficult and I approach it with great humility and, without a doubt, that is why it is not easy to take the step,” he emphasized, regretting that there has been no president of the Republic “since 2007, the year of Jacques Chirac’s departure, considering his successors as” prime ministries. “
“It is not just about power, but also to maintain a commitment to the French in the ability to provide answers to their expectations, to their difficulties,” he said, deplorating that the French have been “deceived since too many decades.”
“We are not candidates for the presidential elections for personal ambition. We are when we know that we have the media, the ability, the determination to change things,” he emphasized, recognizing that “it is not something we do lightly.”
When asked about his political line, which seduced LFI’s electorate, he presented himself as a “gaullist.” “I did not expect 71 years to start a leftist career,” he said, paraphrasing the general of Gaulle, who said in 1958 that he did not want to start “a dictator career” at age 67.
Source: BFM TV
