The former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande do not really help the candidates of their respective political families. A tradition under the Vth.
They have in common to have very cumbersome sponsors. Valérie Pécresse like Anne Hidalgo have to do willy-nilly with the moods of the former presidents of their respective political families. In the radius of the paws distributed by the former, Nicolas Sarkozy has just caused a force 10 storm at Les Républicains. In addition to the defections of several Sarkozy personalities (former Minister Éric Woerth in the lead), there were above all the cruel confidences distilled by the ex-president in front of elected LR officials and reported in the press. We discover that it’s guns blazing when he talks about the campaign of candidate LR. “Pimbêche”, “big blonde”, here are some of the jokes heard behind closed doors in his office. Between them, it’s cow love. “Valerie” wouldn’t do enough. She would be guilty of preferring Chirac and doing less than Macron, who would “treat” him with more respect. During their meeting on the eve of the Zenith meeting, he would have warned her in these terms: “If you say more good things about me, I will say nice things about you. »
Macron would “dangle a possible presidential pardon for Sarko”
Sunday, she quoted Sarkozy three times in her speech, as much as… Chirac. Not sure that’s enough. Tuesday on the set of France 2, she went up a notch in praise: “Nicolas Sarkozy is a reference on the right, I am convinced that he will support me. Everything separates him from Emmanuel Macron. “Optimistic? A relative of the ex already fears the worst: “At best, Sarko will remain in minimum service support as for Fillon in 2017. He does not want Pécresse to win because he wants to remain as the last right-wing president. He’s been killing all his potential successors since 2012. I think he actually has a deal with Macron. Can Sarkozy in turn rally the outgoing president? The hypothesis yesterday improbable begins to take shape. A relative of Sarkozy and Macron brings the procrastination of the ex closer to his legal troubles which would obsess him. “Macron, who will not be able to run again in 2027, would dangle him with a presidential pardon in the event of a final conviction in his affairs. »
To date, he has in any case still not publicly supported candidate LR. He even stealthily defended Zemmour before Christmas. But nothing on “Valérie”, to the chagrin of several Sarkozyists. Some would also have complained to the person concerned. It all starts to look like meticulous sabotage. It’s not glorious on the left either, where Hollande blows hot and cold on the campaign of the mayor of Paris. Admittedly, the PS candidate has multiplied the errors and has sunk itself into the depths of the polls. But the ex-president did nothing to help him, even suggesting at the beginning of the year that he could still be a candidate! Corrèze humor, it seems. A banana peel under the feet of the mayor of Paris.
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