A very symbolic meeting. A year after the agreement concluded between Iric Ciotti, then president of the Republicans and the national demonstration that almost implored the right, Nicolas Sarkozy received Jordan Bardella this Tuesday morning, in his offices in Paris, according to information from the Parisian confirmed by BFMTV.
The exchanges, organized at the initiative of the former head of state “lasted an hour,” explains the entourage of the president of the RN, qualifying the discussions of “courtesy and warm in the political and future situation of France.”
Sarkozy finds Bardella “interesting”
This meeting is not a surprise. In his book “What I am looking for”, launched in the fall, Jordan Bardella had repeatedly mentioned the former Elysée Locate and his victorious campaign in 2007, in which he sees a source of inspiration.
The European deputy also defended Nicolas Sarkozy during his exclusion of the Legion of Honor in June, after his final conviction in the context of listening. The young man then denounced in RTL “a desire to humiliate” that “he surprised him.”
In September 2023, Jordan Bardella also organized himself in his office, highlighting a book by former president “Le Temps des Combat”. The gesture had obviously been noticed by Nicolas Sarkozy. In the process, an elected representative had explained to BFMTV that he had discussed him.
“He told me that Jordan was interesting. The video where my book stands out is pleasant, not as Madame Le Pen, who does not call to vote for me against François Hollande” in 2012 in the second round of the presidential elections.
“A human moment” without “political sense”
At that time, this lieutenant du rn had assured that a meeting “one day would happen” between the two men. “It is Nicolas Sarkozy who will decide, but I think it will be done. Jordan wants to meet him and that I think Nicolas Sarkozy is curious.”
We should see in this meeting a dubbing of Jordan Bardella, led to replacing Marine Le Pen in the 2027 presidential campaign if his sentence to 5 years of inestable in the framework of the trial of parliamentary assistants was confirmed in 2026 during his call. Not at all, it responds to a relative of the former president.
This meeting did not have “political significance”, “it was a human moment”, “very cordial”, during which the two personalities “spoke of France”, insists on a member of their entourage.
And Retailleau?
However, this exchange could have trouble going through the ranks on the right. Since his victory at the head of the LR, many elected officials on the right have seen in the Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau the opportunity to defeat the RN in 2027, either against Jordan Bardella or Marine Le Pen.
The new president of the right -wing party and Nicolas Sarkozy had relatively distant relations for a long time before being shown on May 21 on the occasion of a tribute to a municipal police woman murdered in 2010.
Source: BFM TV
