Cope, candidate for the primary and anti-Sarkozy missile – The Obs

Candidate, but “certainly not” against Nicolas Sarkozy. France 2 on Sunday evening, Jean-Francois Cope assured that there is another month did not mind the primary right, announced he would be on the starting line. One way for the mayor of Meaux, after a course of media silence and non-indictment in Bygmalion case back to the right foreground. A challenge also at his best enemy, Nicolas Sarkozy, to whom he also started a small picnic on the set of Laurent Delahousse:

I never imagined being a candidate if I was put in examination. “

now the Republican president is currently under investigation on suspicion of attempting to bribe a senior judge. Moreover, Nicolas Sarkozy has not finished with the investigation in which Bygmalion he may be prosecuted for illegal financing of election campaign. According to our information, at its convocation investigating judges would be imminent.

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last October 7, those who crossed Jean-Francois Cope to Louchebem in the district of Les Halles, still remember his words. in the evening, the restaurant specializing in meat held its pot-au-feu celebrities. Amid tables and red seats, political, journalists and stars of the small screen. Cécile de Ménibus, Sophie Favier, Nelson Monfort, President of the Assembly Claude Bartolone, MP Pierre Lellouche … and a ghost, Jean-Francois Cope

That night, the mayor of Meaux was not playful mood. In front of one of the guests, he railed, forgetting those around him. He had already led one obsession: the Bygmalion case. And Nicolas Sarkozy. “It is outrageous that put me in because that way before the judge,” he says angrily, his interlocutor.

I will not forgive him. I can assure you that I will pay! “

It should be said that two weeks earlier, content Nicolas Sarkozy’s hearing in the case was leaked Bygmalion in “Obs.” Where are the 18 million euros paid by the UMP to the communication box? Sarkozy did not hesitate to clearly push his predecessor at the head of the party, to the tune of ” it’s not me, it’s him, “Before the police, he even stressed the links between the member for Seine-et-Marne and the com agency behind the scandal:

Everywhere where is Jean-Francois Cope, he took Bygmalion. “

” What a bastard! ” This is what a near Cope swear I heard him let go and discover the contents of Sarkozy’s hearing. The person remembers only spoke of “inelegant”.

What the former president dare to question and to imply that it could be informed of fraud, who as party boss has spared no efforts to support in the presidential 2012! Sarkozy that dares to suggest that Bygmalion case has nothing to do with his rallies and the “Cope boys” are necessarily guilty. Placing it under the status of assisted witness, justice comes, says Cope, of innocence.

Magnanimous, former president of the UMP said he left the office that judges he did not want anyone … But Sarkozy’s accusations to him a declaration of war. One more in a long history between the two men almost from the same generation – Sarkozy 60 years, Cope, 51 – who have never loved

His best enemy

in July 2015, however, their last head-to-head at the headquarters of the Republicans in this office on the eighth floor they both know by heart, was warm: “Carla loves Nadia [t wife of Cope, Ed] . If you walk in the South, come home, “said” Nicolas “. But since then, nor dinner, as was mentioned, nor call from “Carla” to “Nadia”. Before his return, Cope has resumed contact in recent weeks with former enemies – NKM, Wauquiez, Pécresse -. But not with Sarkozy

only Brice Hortefeux’s friend 40 years of Sarkozy, played peacekeepers between the former president and the deputy mayor of Meaux. The summer that followed the ouster of Cope head of the UMP, he even welcomed the outcast few days at home in Auvergne. After truffles and during a walk around a lake, they had currency. “Sarkozy does not pass me a call,” complained Cope. “You do not want him to thank you anyway?” Hortefeux retorted:

How can you believe that the UMP spent all those millions without your knowing “

Response interested”? But it ‘ is like that! “on October 14, the two men again lunch together. on the menu again, Bygmalion. the day before, in” Obs “Jerome Lavrilleux, the former right hand Cope had led the charge against the former president. A scathing response to Sarkozy’s hearing? A over the ball at the center?

December 2014, Sarkozy, who has just taken the head of the UMP, accompanies its predecessor. (Thomas Samson / AFP)

in his book “the French Sursaut”, returning the Cope has the word “kindness” in his mouth. he swears, he is not Monte Cristo returning from Meaux for revenge. Yet sometimes his pen skids and Cope can not help slipping a little kindness at its best enemy. “All my life I refused ease: by being elected in Meaux instead of Neuilly,” he writes in the prologue. On condition of anonymity, one of his friends balance:

Jean-François has always hated Sarkozy. It does not support it. This ongoing agitation, this way of behaving. He talks like a madman “

Another”. Cope no longer has anything to shake Sarkozy. Often before, he spoke ill, with a background of admiration for the political animal. Today he is no longer afraid, when he has something to send him in the gums in political office, he does it. “

Two fierce fighters

Yes, in recent months, the ousted from the presidency of the UMP, who still sits on the “BP” of Republicans, has not bothered to mark his disagreement

June 23, 2015. champion right uninhibited believes centrist served too well for regional: “I will tell the micro that much thinking to themselves, began Cope. The price is too high “response from the former head of state.

You see, Jean-François is the difference between you and me You you like cleavage. me and the congregation. “

In recent months, the climate is still tense. Tuesday, October 6, 2015, the Politburo considers the case of Nadine Morano. Cope wants to defend, the Sarkozy sharply cut “. You interviendras on various issues”

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These two are too similar to agree. One was President and the dream become, the other is driven by this goal since his childhood. Champions of uninhibited right, they fight on the same land and claim authorship of the same ideas. Cope is the origin of the law on the burqa. Sarko swears by it today. Two emotional, say their relatives, but also two fierce fighters.

The first meeting of December 1990 in the premises of the town hall of Neuilly where the mayor, already rising star from right, receives a promising young technocrat, ready to floor for the RPR. He is the son of Raymond Barre, Cope high school buddy and friend of Sarkozy, who organized the meeting. The elder already delivers its advice to foal:

In politics, what matters are not the mandates, the party. And do not ask, take. “

Message received loud. The story is told in the biography of Cope, the explicit title,” Man in a hurry. Survey whoever wants instead of Sarkozy. “

Corpses in the closet

Between them, war was declared in 1995. Director of Cabinet of the Minister Roger Romani, Cope is one of the young guns of Jena Avenue HQ Chirac candidate. opposite Sarkozy, figure of the traitor and targets Chirac, is spokesman for Balladur. after the presidential election, “the Event of Thursday “asks the young RPR MP for Seine-et-Marne in the form of Chinese portrait.” An enemy? “, asks the weekly.” Nicolas Sarkozy, responding Cope tit-for-tat. We’re both high bad, but at least I’m faithful “(” hurry Man “). They no longer speak for two years.

Since the bodies were in the closet accumulated:

• 2004 , Sarkozy believed that around Cope – whose Bastien Millot, the former head of Bygmalion – fueling rumors about his marital problems with Cecilia, and supports the mayor of Meaux, regional top the list in Ile-de-France, as the rope hangman.
• 2007 , once the Elysee, he refuses to be a minister. Cope, group President of the Assembly, takes revenge by inventing the “legislative co-production,” a snub to the head of state.
• When the UMP political bureau who assassinates May 2014 , the sarkozystes do not support him as he hoped. Worse, rally by rally, Sarkozy begins his song back in lambasting the awful image left by the Copé-Fillon war, how to bury the two rivals.

Today, in the Sarkozy camp, monitors the return of Jean- François Copé the corner of his eye. “His ambition is not to manufacture brie de Meaux,” smiled Hortefeux. But the relatives of the former president is not of great concern, convinced that “copéistes are first sarkozystes” that soon would make the right choice whether to make one. They point out that many parliamentarians who crowd around the MP for Seine-et-Marne in Châteaurenard, his appointment each late summer, or at its meetings on Tuesday in the Assembly, are “friends, not support “. What many near Cope confirms moreover, to “off”.

Jean-Francois Cope and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at a meeting of Nicolas Sarkozy, March 31, 2012. (Philippe WOJAZER / Pool / AFP)

This n ‘ not prevent the former head of the UMP still dreaming his presidential destiny. His campaign slogan is found: “France uninhibited” in line with its “right uninhibited.” In his book “The French Sursaut” he recites proposals and presents a severe judgment on some measures of the quinquennium Sarkozy, as declining enrollment in the police and the gendarmerie. Cope also considers that the return triumphant announced as the former head of state has pschitt:

What happened last eighteen months? Are there a dynamic around the party? strong ideas? No. “

Sarkozy has also decided to accelerate. On TF1 Sunday evening, at a time when Cope announced his candidacy on France 2, he again reiterated that he was the man . the gathering of his family a few weeks ago, he also evoked in these terms the return of “JFC” with one of the friends of the latter, the deputy mayor of Châteaurenard Bernard Reynes: “I love Jean-François, it has a lot of talent, but it is too cleaving. “Tasty judgment of a master in the field.

Violet Lazard and Mael Thierry

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