Paris (AFP) – After a difficult week, the UMP has displayed its unity Saturday at its National Council of Mutuality in Paris, despite some spikes that have launched remotely Nicolas Sarkozy and Alain Juppé .
Managing to hold this meeting, intended to prepare the departmental elections of March in the presence of hundreds of national advisors, no overflow was not a foregone conclusion for the president of the UMP . In recent days have indeed been marked by the cacophony on what to do in case of FN-PS duel, then the controversy related to paid conference Mr Sarkozy on Monday in Abu Dhabi.
Finally no one has mentioned this conference. And hardly does one-talked the second round of the partial legislative Doubs Sunday will pit a PS candidate and FN candidate.
All his desire to “collect” his party, Sarkozy was careful to give voice to the leading personalities of the UMP, Francois Fillon, Alain Juppe, Bruno Le Maire, Xavier Bertrand, declared or potential candidates for the primary in 2016, not counting Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, 2 of the party, and his great rival, Laurent Wauquiez, Secretary General.
The party has almost been won for Mr. Sarkozy, if this was booed against Juppe when the latter referred to the modem and its union with the right and the UDI to succeed alternation in 2017.
To return the helm in 2017 and combat the National Front, it is necessary “the gathering of the right and the center. It is the DNA of the UMP. Everywhere, you have the union of the UMP, UDI and even the modem, “said former Prime Minister, while the President of the Party, Francois Bayrou, is reviled by the right since its decision to vote Hollande in 2012
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However, the boos were not at all same intensity as those suffered by Mr Juppe in Bordeaux, in the fall of 2014 during a Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign rally for the presidency of the UMP.
Mr. Sarkozy, however, could not help but to lecture Mr. Juppé, who said on Monday that “personally” he would vote PS in the Doubs “Alain, everyone here respects your beliefs but. we are not obliged to give to all provocations and respond to micro anytime I want to talk about a word that is not taboo! “
.” The word competition ” added the former head of state, referring to the primary why, unlike Mr. Juppé, it is not officially declared. “It is not I who will accuse their ambitions to each other but there is a schedule to follow: first cantonal (note county in March) and regional (in December) and primary (2016 ). “
This primary,” we will organize it calmly, it should in any case pollute the background work that we must first commit “to the alternation has Sarkozy said, losing 26 points from September to the UMP in a BVA poll published Saturday.
For his part, Mr Juppe said his “commitment to the party” and “sound name “that Sarkozy is considering changing yet at the same time he wants to rebuild the movement to strengthen its leadership in the party.
” We are not in a classic economic crisis “has also Mr Sarkozy guard. We must “rebuild a real ideological corpus” with “strong and new answers to meet” the deep crisis “, including” identity crisis “that crosses France.
In this regard, it said that during his five years, he should attach the Ministry of National Identity not that of immigration but that of Culture.
The political bureau of the UMP, met at the lunchtime, also adopted “unanimously” Text “setting out the principles of thought and action” of the UMP, which will serve as a “base” in the context of upcoming conventions.
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