Republicans will offer one last day with family – Le Figaro

Candidates for the primary of the right will not be there Sunday when Nicolas Sarkozy will launch his project for the party.

to believe Brice Hortefeux, “a good National Council is a national council where nothing happens.” From this point of view, the first day of the meeting of the “parliament” of Republicans Saturday Porte de Versailles, was a great success. Interventions party officials and questions of the room have succeeded for six hours without real quack, under the watchful eye of Nicolas Sarkozy, who has not left the platform.

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Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Fillon on Saturday Copyright: LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP

Another source of satisfaction for the owner of the right: all candidates for the primary, large and small, have made the trip. Alain Juppé and Bruno Le Maire attended the luncheon, Francois Fillon even spoke. By mounting the rostrum, he headed straight for Nicolas Sarkozy shake hands. At lunch, they had not sent a look.

“The national council is to discuss our political line, attacked the former prime minister. It’s a good thing, subject to remember that a policy line is the result of a project for France, not the result of a synthesis hollandienne. “After his speech, François Fillon returned to sit at the forefront of the room next to Alain Juppé, then slipped away. Nicolas Sarkozy commented that starting in his own way: “A party is not a succession of speeches we do and then we can not hear what you say!” He launched the militants. Alain Juppé was content to smile, not to speak. “A National Council, it is used to gather and it is already good,” he told us.

Pluralism

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, she does not let pass. Dislocated in December its LR Vice President of functions, the possible candidate for the primary warned: “There is no right man! Or woman, I assure you. This is the reality of the democratic exercise open, transparent and pluralistic, which will force our candidate. “

The radius” pluralism “, the National Council had the choice with the interventions of Hervé Mariton, Nadine Morano, or, again, Henri Guaino. All attacked Nicolas Sarkozy, from various angles. “I want to keep the promise you had made to repeal the Taubira law!” Fired his deputy of the Drôme, irreducible marriage opponent for everyone. “You were wrong to abolish the Department of Immigration,” Nadine Morano has dealt him. “I mean to Nadine we’re very happy to have heard this mic and it contributes to the diversity of expressions,” responded the president of RS, stoic.

The curse of flood Henri Guaino has achieved more. “I am not a centrist, not liberal, not neoconservative, I Gaullist !, vibrated old pen Nicolas Sarkozy. Me, my political family, is the one that is a shame we do not offer an alternative meals to children in canteens. “President of LR took this position in the departmental campaign.

the division into horror

on Sunday, Sarkozy will have the last word. Neither Juppé, Fillon neither nor Mayor nor NKM will be there for his closing speech. “I understand that if it is not President or Secretary General of the party, we did not want to spend two days at the National Council,” quipped the former head of state in a closed circle. At the podium, he announced the coming weeks program: “It is my responsibility to set the political line as president of our movement.”

So much for the absent, including the primary candidates who have already said they will not ratify this “base” programmatic. The former head of state knows that militants abhor the division and played with the audience: “Sometimes I get tired of listening to long radio and television give us some of their opinions . on a subject without the majority of our movement be expressed “” There will be a position, not fifty, “he promised, running:” Should we adopt an independent project, or wait until the candidates deign we submit the project? “” Wait, “said Gilles Boyer in petto, the campaign manager Alain Juppe.