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In front of hundreds of cadres, the party of the parliament spends the morning at three main themes: the economy, Europe and the sovereign subjects . On the stage, almost all of the leaders spoke to evoke these themes, taking care not to return to the subject that has divided the party in recent days: the attitude to adopt towards the Socialist Party duel against Front National Sunday in the second round of the by-election in the Doubs. But the shadow of this election still hangs over the meeting.
Laurent Wauquiez has put his foot in it, reaffirming its position in favor of “neither-nor” in his speech. Is the strategy that the party has chosen Tuesday during his Politburo. “I do not socialist vote because I do not have the same ideas as the Socialists’ , has he reiterated at the podium, adding that he did not vote FN either. “Our political family deserves better than to be the proxy of the PS and the FN” , has he said to the applause of the audience. “What the UMP mine is the confusion between the right and left , he declared in an interview with Paris , published Saturday and “It is this confusion that thrives National Front” .
One way to take his disagreement with Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, with whom he execrable relations. It called as Alain Juppé, to vote for the PS candidate in the Doubs. In an interview with BBC published Saturday M me Kosciusko-Morizet reaffirms its position and calls for consultation with the militants. “This is a fundamental question, so she is destined to be put to them,” she says.
TABOO TOPIC
Behind the scenes, the debate also continues. Elected officials are surprised that the subject is in all the heads are slightly raised, while the entire leadership met. “This morning, we should have a real debate on the position of each other on the issue of” neither-nor “, for example, estimates MP filloniste Jérôme Chartier. We voted for the “neither-nor” Tuesday, but we would have had to decide whether it is appropriate for a political party to give instructions to vote. The National Council would have been a good opportunity. “” This meeting is useless. We will talk about economic issues after this week marked by the FN? A National Council must be political and answer the political questions “ adds the near Bruno Le Maire.
Despite a complicated week, there was no question of changing the order of day. “The National Council is not the place to reflect on what we have to do after a defeat in a constituency. It is the starting point for substantive work and reflection on the diagnosis and the political room for maneuver. It should pave the way, the scene “, says Geoffroy Didier, national secretary-house animation.
Roger Karoutchi, Senator of Hauts-de-Seine, said that he should no longer return to the “neither-nor” but it does not exclude a vote of militants: “Why not vote activists on a battery of questions, such as the naming of future training but also on the strategy against the FN? “
During the round table on the” crisis of the economic system “, a national adviser to the UMP also took the floor to address the taboo subject of the morning: “I want to go back to what happened in the Doubs. We lost because the FN and the PS have a weak draft, but they have one. Us, we are to build it, but coming back to power, we have to apply it quickly. “
Nicolas Sarkozy, he spoke several times – including Ukraine – taking care not to touch it. He landed guarantor party unity, again endorsing its convening costume: “The misfortune of a political party, it is not to have too much talent, it’s do not give voice to his talents. “ The former head of the state pays in the polls this week, where his leadership was challenged. According to a survey Odoxa i-Tele and Le Parisien , published Saturday, 68% of French people believe that his authority was questioned. The supporters are right 54% feel this way
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Nicolas Sarkozy warns against the resurgence of a “cold war”
The president of the UMP said that France does not want a new “Cold War” between Europe and Russia and could not “not blame the Crimea for choosing Russia” . “We have a common civilization with Russia. American interests with the Russians, it is not the interests of Europe with Russia “, argued Nicolas Sarkozy, for whom Ukraine ” must keep its bridge role between Europe and Russia. It is not intended to enter the European Union ‘.
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