The Head of State has always believed that his predecessor would play a second round.
countdown is started. Repeating it will take its decision in September to return to the political scene by the UMP box, Nicolas Sarkozy – who went on holiday to Bali – maintains pressure. Although right and left, no one questions the determination of the former president. At the Elysee, we pretended not to pay attention to small pebbles Sarkozy sows on the way back. “The president is focused on issues of school”, evades does one in his entourage, where they refused to make any comment on the statements by the former head of state in Values current .
The reality is quite different. Discreetly, Hollande prepares the return of his former opponent. Return he knows inevitable since May 6, 2012 and calculated and moving farewell to President defeated UMP activists gathered in Mutuality. That evening, watching television, the victorious socialist understands that Sarkozy will do everything he can to play the game back in 2017 Sarkozy. “Did not like Jospin said he was retiring from politics, repeat Holland privately. Sarkozy was beaten young. As Giscard. The idea of return is understandable. “” From May 6, Holland knows that time (the return of Sarkozy, Ed) will happen adds a loved one. There are no surprises. “
In recent months, Holland oversaw the corner of his eye the actions of his predecessor. Before PS deputies received at the Elysee, last February, he smiled while listening to a socialist elected bitching because Nicolas Sarkozy was invited to a meeting of municipal campaign Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, while François Hollande was visiting state in the United States. “He wanted to parasitize your sequence” was launched in MP substance. “But I have to the eye, I see what he does,” replied quietly head of state in a half-smile.If for some PS, Sarkozy is the “dream candidate” for Holland because he “ressoudera the left against him,” others worry instead of “dangerousness” of former President
Elysee, media outlets former president are scanned. It has not escaped the close of the Head of State that Sarkozy had collected more than $ 9 million in July on French TF1 and Europe 1, to defend themselves in business. Holland, he gathered 7.6 million viewers on July 14. As Manuel Valls, 7 million watched the French on April 2 on TF1, the evening of his appointment to Matignon. “It shows that the knowledge of Sarkozy in the media is still very important,” says a friend of Holland.
Since the Lantern, where he sits a few days, the head of state prepares political comeback. A tactical been for a president who cares private volatility of the political landscape, while most political formations (UMP, FN, IDU, etc.). Hold their congress in late 2014 or in 2015: “He did no control over the sequence that opens observed majority leader. The coming year is a pivotal year, worrying. François wonders how occupy space: should it be present or leave each other and tear “A close friend of President adds:” These past two years, the Socialists were among them. The novelty is that at the beginning we will not be alone, because the UMP will restore order. “ strategists President will closely follow the issues on which the former head of state could return: “We must not underestimate the opponent, prevents a close. Sarkozy has a capacity to reinvent surprise. “They also questioned the date Sarkozy” will enter the atmosphere “and” impact “it will return to the” tectonic plates. ” If, for some, PS, Sarkozy is the “dream candidate” for Holland because he “ressoudera the left against him,” others worry instead of “dangerousness” of the former president.“Holland is caught in a contradictory feeling, says one of his close friends. He has already played the game. He already knows the rules and the opponent. That is reassuring. But on the other hand, he also knows the strength, the power of Sarkozy, his dynamism, his will, his ability to be in motion. It will not be an easy opponent. We must be very careful. “
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