Henri Guaino candidate for the primary to the right – The Point

And one more, the twelfth. At five months of the primary of the line must appoint the candidate LR in the presidential election of 2017, Henri Guaino Monday announced his candidacy in Lea Salameh on France Inter. “I could not stand idly by,” he justified. MP Yvelines may well support, for months, that the primary is a “bad idea”, he decided to go into battle to embody the ideal “Gaullist” he regrets not see incarnated on the political spectrum. “No one defends the idea of ​​Gaullism. And this vacuum tends to be filled by a parody of Gaullism, “argues Henry Guaino denouncing attempts to recover the” General “by the extremes.

Recognizing has not all referrals even if he is not far from the 20 Republicans adoubements parliamentarians needed to stand, but acknowledging at the same time, it lacks the signatures of 250 elected “Republican” and 2 500 militants, Henri Guaino stressed that it was more difficult to participate in the primary to the presidential election. If he does not get the signatures, it will launch still in the race for the Elysee, he warned.

Nicolas Sarkozy informed

Former Advisor Special Nicolas Sarkozy have warned that ensures his candidacy, but he declined to deliver the reaction, Henri Guaino meant to embody the line of social Gaullism. It is no accident if he announces his candidacy for the primary right and center the day François Hollande travels to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises to honor the first president of the Fifth Republic .

Confident want to fight against “the single thought, the austerity policy and financial orthodoxy imposed by Europe”, falling outside of a party system “fossilized” as he words, Henri Guaino hopes to fight in his own way, against the rise of populism. Born 11 March 1957 in Arles, from a modest background (his mother, housekeeper the only student with his grandmother), Henri Guaino is a historian and economist by training.

No to Maastricht

After three failed the entrance examination to the national School of administration (ENA), he began his professional career in the private: Credit Lyonnais while teaching parallel to the Graduate School of commerce in Paris and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud. He joined the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance, as project manager, he was, in turn, close to Philippe Séguin, Robert Poujade, mayor of Dijon, and Franck Borotra, general secretary of the RPR. Opposed the referendum on the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, he worked at Charles Pasqua firm as a technical advisor to the Ministry of the Interior and Regional Planning, before going to the Jacques Chirac in 1995 , which he will, through the inspired speech, the apostle of the struggle against the “social fracture”. But it is as a “plume” of Nicolas Sarkozy and his special adviser at the Elysee he is best known.