Primary: Fillon and Mariton grasp the High Authority if Sarkozy – Le Figaro

SCAN THE POLICY / VIDEO – The deputies of Paris and Drome, which both claim the inauguration of Republicans for the presidential election, accusing the former president of be president candidate position.

The hostilities rise a notch. While twelve personalities have already submitted bids for the Republican primary (LR) for 2017, Nicolas Sarkozy’s intentions are no longer in doubt. Problem: the former head of state, who is also the patron of Vaugirard, is accused by its competitors to benefit from its position of president to campaign without being declared. Members of Paris and Drome, François Fillon and Hervé Mariton, notably decided to step up.

So, as revealed in Le Figaro Last week, MP LR of Haute-Savoie, Bernard Accoyer, he decided to enter Tuesday the High Authority on behalf of François Fillon. The LR MP for Manche, Philippe Gosselin, also joined in this action on behalf of Hervé Mariton. Yet approached by two men, the other ten candidates for the primary and enclosures for their part refused to co-sign this referral, advancing reasons deemed “soft” by some of the applicants.

Guest of ” Talk “ Le Figaro on Wednesday, the former president of the national Assembly detailed the reasons for its action. “We say it is imperative that primary blameless so that no one may challenge the result. And (it) requires that each of those who declared themselves one way or another subject themselves to a number of rules, and there is no confusion in the media. (…) I think the series of meetings he has done are campaign meetings, “said he said.

Already last week, the mayor of Bordeaux and main rival former president, Alain Juppe, had denounced “a moral and ethical problem.” “Do not take back some things from the past, where we merged some things between election campaigns and funding of the party”, he had urged dryly. Repeated criticism that forced the president of the organizing committee of the primary, Thierry Solère, temporizing and call waiting to know the decision of Nicolas Sarkozy.

a priori the High Authority – which has 48 hours to decide on the referral – however, should not make binding judgments. “There is no illusion does” do we breath in the entourage of Bernard Accoyer, where we especially hope a call to order. Especially since the party statutes provide that “any officer declaring candidate for the primary must resign at least 15 days before the deadline for applications” on August 25 at the latest. That leaves more than two months.