Pension reform: Sarkozy calls on the right to “take into account the fights that were theirs”

Welcome support at a time when the presidential camp is struggling to get behind his pension reform. in the columns of Figaro MagazineNicolas Sarkozy addresses the deputies Les Républicains (LR), without whom the relative majority will not be able to approve his text, except under article 49.3.

“LR campaigned during the 2022 presidential elections defending the retirement of Valérie Pécresse at the age of 65. The right should take into account the struggles that were theirs,” said the former head of state.

Words intended for certain parliamentarians from the group who refuse, as it is, to vote on the government’s text, even though the party’s feathered hats have shown themselves in favor of it.

“People’s France is for work”

They are between 15 and 20 according to a BFMTV count, which is only provisional. His position weakens the relative majority that needs to get some forty votes from among the 62 right-wing deputies. These elected officials point to “injustices,” especially in long careers. They are, for the most part, relatives of Aurélien Pradié, who has become co-number two of the party and a singer of a “popular right”.

Seeming to implicitly address these recalcitrant deputies, Nicolas Sarkozy indicates that the right “must remember that popular France is for work.” And that “even when you have the opposite impression when reading the polls,” according to him.

Sarkozy in favor of a rapprochement between LR and Renaissance in the Assembly

For several months now, Nicolas Sarkozy has been creating a stir in his in-laws. In the second round of the presidential elections, he had clearly announced that he would vote for Emmanuel Macron when the party leadership had settled that “you cannot vote for Marine Le Pen”.

Above all, the former President of the Republic wants a rapprochement in the National Assembly between his political family and the relative majority. Recently, in comments reported by le figaroHe advocated “a power that stretches out its hand” and “people in the opposition that take it.”