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Read Jean-Francois Cope, a return orchestrated
Mr. Cope, who has always harbored ambitions of Elysian, explained his candidacy by his not indicted in the investigation into the case Bygmalion, delivered Monday, February 8. “This is a sword of Damocles that has disappeared. I never imagined being a candidate if I was charged with “, said the witness who is assisted in this matter. Therefore, he did not want to wait to clarify its ambitions: “I had imagined at first give me a few more weeks” , has he said. “I think I’m ready and I was very hypocritical to delay unnecessarily, even what arrived last Monday the judges’ decision on this sad affair Bygmalion” , he slipped.
Believing he was wrongly accused in the case of Mr Sarkozy’s campaign accounts, Mr. Cope did not intend to let the former head of state to win in the primary. Saturday at the National Council, he recalled the “big win” had obtained the municipal party, under his chairmanship, and concluded his speech by running: “At the end these are always the good guys win. “
On Sunday evening, the mayor of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) said ” have no spirit of revenge “ to the president of the Republicans (LR), with whom relations are frigid yet. According to him, his candidacy would be “in no case” for putting sticks in the wheels of the former head of state. “A primary, it’s not a match between a man and another man” , he argued. In recent months, relations between Messrs. Cope and Sarkozy have festered because of legal developments in the case Bygmalion. The first, who maintains his innocence ensuring not have “knew nothing” of the scandal, was very badly to have been charged by the second before the investigators, September 4, 2015, leaving that he would have covered the cost overruns of his 2012 campaign
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Since then, Mr. Cope will “clear his name” and attempts to arouse empathy in French to rehabilitate his image deeply tarnished by cheating accusations against him during his war with François Fillon and his implication in the case Bygmalion. Despite the mistrust he met in opinion, this big ambitious decides to play his card in the race for the primary.
The question is whether he will be able to gather twenty parliamentarians have sponsorships necessary to present. In the right-wing party, the majority of tenors believe that the former president of the UMP is likely to achieve this: every Tuesday morning, he gathered around him a score of parliament remained faithful, the MP Michèle Tabarot or Senator Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. Recently, Mr. Cope has made a show of force by bringing together 47 parliamentarians in the House of chemistry in Paris on 26 January. Theoretically, this elected pond should allow the former president of the UMP to be on the starting line at the November ballot. Bad news for Nicolas Sarkozy, already battered in the polls and within his own camp. Mr. Cope could scrounge voice to the President of RS with the most right-wing voters
Meanwhile, it extends the list of candidates for the primary. After Alain Juppe, Francois Fillon, Nadine Morano, Frédéric Lefebvre Herve Mariton and Jean-Frédéric Poisson, it is the seventh declared candidate for the presidential nomination right for 2017. Meanwhile Bruno Le Maire February 23, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet mid-March and Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of the summer.
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