by Sophie Louet
PARIS (Reuters) – Nicolas Sarkozy is not back yet on the political ring he already crystallized the debate and left in his camp, where his opponents are trying to contain the “tsunami” announced by imposing the terms of the confrontation.
In convening Tuesday in its policy statement the figure of the former president, Manuel Valls has installed the most likely candidate for the Presidency UMP in the role of chief opponent.
A tactical and healthy escape for prime minister, which seeks to abstract ideological head-to-head with its majority, whose tenors see in the return of Nicolas Sarkozy an opportunity to divert attention from internal squabbles in the Socialist Party.
But it is also the first act of the competition for the presidency in 2017 as the weakness of François Hollande seems rush.
The contenders right enjoy, who are working for weeks to minimize the return of Nicolas Sarkozy.
His nomination for the presidency of the UMP is imminent probably this weekend after the press conference of the head of state, according to relatives.
In a muscular registry that knew him little, Bruno Le Maire said he was ready to do battle Nicolas Sarkozy with in the field of ideas. “A steamroller has never made me scared,” he repeated Wednesday on France Info.
The member, who will play with his colleague Hervé Mariton former president in the election Internal November 29, offers two televised debates with his rivals
The argument is gaining force among the “anti-Sarkozy” to the UMP. “Once the shot com ‘past, it will that convinces Sarkozy on the bottom, and that’s far from over, “said a deputy” filloniste. “
” NEVER CHANGES ON “
A poll OpinionWay / Clai / LCI released Tuesday, 64% of French people say they are not interested in the return of Nicolas Sarkozy, which remains the right man for the majority of UMP.
A UMP says that number of its citizens bristle at the idea to revive “the circus.”
“He will come back with new ideas, with new attitudes,” says former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin . “Yes, Nicolas Sarkozy has changed, it has learned from the experience of power, his failures,” trusts his former intimate enemy Dominique de Villepin.
François Fillon, who strives to impose its brand to the primary right in 2016 despite the ubiquity of Nicolas Sarkozy and the popularity of Alain Juppé, questioned Wednesday renewal capacity of man to “break.”
“I’ve always heard that you never changed. Nobody, neither you nor me,” he commented on RTL, before attacking the former president on the bottom.
The former prime minister, who ruled five years alongside Nicolas Sarkozy, denounced his “cautious reformism” reproach also made at the place of Alain Juppe, while conceding have sold in the past “quiet reform.”
ENEMIES WITHIN
Now promoter of an ultra-liberal economic agenda, including the removal of the 35 hours in the private sector, François Fillon challenges Nicolas Sarkozy to propose bold solutions to the country’s recovery.
“What I mean is that it does not want to touch the 35 hours, at the age of retirement, the labor code … “, he has slipped.
” There is a substantive debate, almost ideological debate that we must carry in our political family ” has he added, taking care to swallow Nicolas Sarkozy to the status of competitor “like the others”, he will meet soon.
“Democracy is also the competition, n is not aligned, it is not the organization in band, not the discipline before the imagination, “said he started criticizing the hint attempted poaching in sarkozystes its ranks.
Alain Juppe, who unlike Francois Fillon has cordial relations with Nicolas Sarkozy warned last week it would conduct the Current Values ”competition on substantive issues without animosity against anyone. “
Nicolas Sarkozy, say its supporters, would return to” a popular online “and” unifying “able to marry the ideas of the center, the campaign” rightist “in 2012 has convinced follow its own destiny.
The idea of a merger with the UMP in the “big bang” announced by the followers of Nicolas Sarkozy to address the National Front, is at present firmly rejected IDU.
“It makes you wonder if Sarkozy has no more enemies inside,” says an officer of the UMP.
(Edited by Yves Clarisse)
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