A man officially withdrawn from politics, who looks benevolence to his son Louis to embark on Menton and waiting on Thursday the judgment of the Paris Court of the issue of the Libyan suspension of his campaign in 2007. Actually, more than 18 years after his arrival at Elysée, Nicolas Sarkozy is more than ever more than ever omnipresent to the right. The last episode to date: his appointment with the new Tenant of Matignon Sébastien Lecornu, just 48 hours after his appointment.
The Prime Minister, who nevertheless has bread to ensure his position for a few months, prefers to go to the Rue de Miromesnil to the offices of the former head of state instead of meeting the unions and oppositions. The proof that the former president, turned into businesses, especially for the Giant of the Accor hotel, still continues.
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“He is a free man who says what he thinks without being locked in obligations, with a real height. It is necessarily something beautiful when you arrive in Matignon,” observes Daniel Fasquelle, vice president of the LR with BFMTV.
“Nicolas Sarkozy is very sensitive to this type of attention. And if he can prevent him from saying evil in Sébastien Lecornu in a few months, it is much better,” says more bleeding, a macronista deputy passed through the right.
The image of Nicolas Sarkozy and its influence, real or supposedly, seems to have been flown in a part of the right in recent years. However, the former president was definitely sentenced in mid -December as part of listening issues to use an electronic bracelet for a year.
“A political instinct”
Desalized for a former president of the Republic who finally could eliminate it a few months after his age. In the process, the septuagenarian was also excluded from the Legion of Honor, as the procedure wants in case of a conviction equal to or greater than a firm year.
“It is a humiliation that we have made, but does not change their status. People continue to want to hear their word that is still effective. And his political instinct is still very powerful,” says Isabelle Balkany, who has remained one of his relatives.
The traile of the ballet of friends and courtiers has even accelerated in recent months, fed by the particularly unstable political situation. But Nicolas Sarkozy is far from drawing all the strings. Example with the appointment of François Bayrou. The former president, who shows a cordial agreement with Emmanuel Macron, had not hesitated last December to go to Elysée to tell him all the damage he thought of the mayor of Pau. Las: It is the centrist who is named the next day.
An appointment with Jordan Bardella “not very elegant”
Sometimes, or even often Nicolas Sarkozy is ashamed. As summer vacations are coming, the former head of the State receives Jordan Bardella around coffee and some chocolates, his nice sin. The young man has something to drink serum, who has never hidden his admiration for the former president, until he appeared on video with one of his works. But on the right side, the maneuver goes wrong.
“It was not very elegant to receive the one who wants to make our skin. But Nicolas Sarkozy receives whoever wants, we cannot do anything, even if sometimes, we prefer to listen to it less,” laments a European deputy of LR.
The gesture has everything of the symbol at the same time for the one he had won in 2007 hunting in the Jean-Marie Le Pen field, but also for the number one of the national rally that only dreams of seducing to the right. Worse: In this meeting, the former president almost seems to soften Marine Le Pen’s right arm that could replace it during the next presidential elections.
“He never said he supported Jordan Bardella,” Matiz for his part Jonas Haddad, the spokesman for the movement, who judges that Nicolas Sarkozy visitors look for “especially to listen to their analysis.”
Bruno Retailleau, not its cup of tea
Meanwhile, this meeting also shows that the former president not only has velvet eyes for his distant successor to the right -handed head, Bruno Retilleau. However, the Interior Minister, who never counted among his relatives, had made sure to receive his anointing by placing the forms there.
During his great victory at the head of the LR in May, his first phone call is directly for Nicolas Sarkozy. Enough to close cold years between the two men with very different natures and political trips.
Two days later, the two men are in Villiers-Sur-Marne for the tribute to Aurélie Fouquet, a municipal police woman killed in 2010. In the eyes of her relatives and police staff, Nicolas Sarkozy evokes “his joy and his trust” in him.
“None of us take our orders at home”
Without being able to help you shame a few months later. After the announcement of François Bayrou of the vote of trust, Bruno Retailleau does not even consult his troops before announcing his political family support to the centrist.
The former president takes exactly the opposite. While the Interior Minister begs the “stability”, Nicolas Sarkozy Judges in Figaro’s columns that there will be no other solution than the dissolution. “Worse.
“We all still have a lot of admiration for him. But none of us takes their orders at home. It is always easy to give voting instructions when it is not you who pay the consequences,” explains a deputy on the right.
Few are the elected officials of the Palais-Bourbon who sat during their five years between 2007 and 2012. Result: Nicolas Sarkozy remains a guardianship figure but without the great world having the impression of having something. Among the 49 LR deputies who sit in the assembly, only one of them was their minister: Laurent Wauquiez.
“The tenacious resentment”
On the right, no grandfather has also forgotten that the president had not been able to win the LR primaries in 2016 to represent his party in the 2017 presidential elections.
“Let’s say that he has a little put his side ‘I understood everything and I will explain how to do it,” he says that a correct wing senator, especially because after rubbing his shoulders with sales records, the last volume of his memories launched in the summer of 2023 only had a moderate success.
“We need his experience, of course, but we must be able to offer things to today’s society and not to the company of 2007 when he was chosen,” said the group deputy, one of the smallest people in the group.
Is it easier in the coming years to distance yourself from Nicolas Sarkozy? Nothing is less safe. He whistled during a meeting at Valérie Pecresse during the 2022 campaign, the former president had not had a gesture to save his campaign that looks like a cross form. “It has a very tenacious resentment,” says one of his former advisors. Do not touch the right totem.
Source: BFM TV
