Nicolas Sarkozy, almost official candidate for the primary right – Europe1

It has already donned his running suit to the primary. Nicolas Sarkozy, expected Wednesday in Marseille, Nice was the day before to autograph his book, The France for life . The chairman of the Republicans also participated in a public meeting to support Marine Brennier, RS candidate for a partial legislative organized late May. He took the opportunity to reassure those who doubt even his participation in the primary from the right.

“Let’s up.” “Believe me, I don ‘ did not used to be late, “he told Nicolas Sarkozy. “I sense the wait, I have not lost my passion or my energy.” If the former president has every intention to embark on the battle for the nomination, but it is not the question for him to rush. There is a calendar. “It has to rise. There is a scenario, a thread to pull,” says the president of Republicans privately. A story, it does not happen like that, there must be a drama.

The Austrian example. The proliferation of candidates for the primary gives an additional argument to Nicolas Sarkozy. “You want me to add my name to that long list, I am candidate between Geoffroy Didier and Rama Yade?” is he fun, especially emphasizing the need to preserve the unity of his political family. The chairman of Republicans slides in passing that “the candidate of the establishment and the media, people want to do more.” According to him, when the left and the right say the same thing, he comes out the far right. And former head of state to brandish the example of Austria, where the candidate of the FPÖ, the extreme right party, arrived last Sunday won the first round of the presidential election. “The traditional political parties of left and right were swept away. Why? Because they had forgotten the requirement for voters to stick with the single thought, cowardice, a form of resignation,” insists Nicolas Sarkozy. “I do not want that in France.”

“We will win our ideas,” still insists the president of the Republicans, which sets a strategy: tell all before, to do everything after. The idea is obviously dear to the right. Since the beginning of the campaign, it was hammered by conscientiously candidates for the primary, Bruno Le Maire Hervé Mariton via Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet.