Of the three candidates for the primary UMP for the presidency of the Senate, it is the last in that best sums up the outcome of the competition between the other two. “ We choose a candidate for the board, not the President of the Republic ,” said Philippe Marini, who got 7 votes, far behind former prime minister, fought 45 votes against 80 for Gérard Larcher. The latter has also obtained a better score than when he was first elected in 2008 faced the same candidates. The victory of the right in senatorial elections last Sunday thus ensures Gérard Larcher elected on Wednesday, October 1 at the head of the upper house.
support of Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed loudly by Jean-Pierre Raffarin, has clearly not thrilled the 145 senators a vote. Quite the contrary.
It was win-win: Jean-Pierre Raffarin promised to support the former president to the presidency of the UMP in exchange for his support for the Presidency Senate. Raffarin Plateau would have been for the first step of Sarkozy’s rise to power.
It was not counting on the fact that senators are wary of excessive politicization and big media loads. But Jean-Pierre Raffarin, in recent days, has increased the appearances, promising to be a “resistant” to the head of “a Senate fight.”
Independence foremost
“The Senate is an autonomous institution” , said immediately after his victory Gérard Larcher. Which rather filloniste, was unlike his opponent not play the media card support, favoring networks (hunting, Freemasons etc …).
“You can not say that fillonistes have brought victory Gerard Larcher,” said Senator Catherine Procaccia who does not believe that battle, “completed” its eyes, between Jean-Francois Cope and Francois Fillon, has weighed more than that.
But if fillonistes have not necessarily considered, “the statements sarkozystes have had an impact, says the chosen one, because senators are very attached to the independence of the institution vis-à-vis national issues UMP. “
” There are false friends who did him no favors by making it appear as close to Nicolas Sarkozy. Larcher’s victory is that of a field application, “said Bruno Retailleau, presidential candidate of the UMP as Gerard Longuet and Roger Karoutchi.
L hypothesis that the loss of Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a blow to Nicolas Sarkozy annoys the ranks of the former president. “It was written that Larcher prevail, but Nicolas Sarkozy could not crop Raffarin” when he proclaimed his support throughout. Reason? “He needs it for the presidency of the UMP. Activists appreciate it.”
(With agencies)
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