Patrick Buisson, former advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy and figure of the extreme right, died at the age of 74

The essayist was found lifeless at his home in Les Sables-d’Olonne on Tuesday morning.

He embodied the conservative turn of the French right. The essayist Patrick Buisson, who had been an advisor to the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy, died on Tuesday December 26 at the age of 74, the police of Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) declared the same day. .

During the 2007 presidential campaign, Patrick Buisson was close to UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he continued to advise at the Elysée. The collaboration between the two men ultimately came to an end. Author of clandestine recordings of the former president, Patrick Buisson published, in September 2016, The People’s Cause (Perrin editions)an explosive book against him.

Hailed by the far right

Published in far-right newspapers like Minute in the 1970s and then in Current values, Patrick Buisson had also been close to the co-founder of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen. But it was with Nicolas Sarkozy that he was able to implement one of his key ideas: the Ministry of National Identity. In 2007, it was he who convinced the politician to address the working classes tempted by the FN.

Among the personalities who reacted to his death, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, greeted X A “free and transgressive spirit, archaeologist of the right and ideas”. For his part, the president of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, shared of his emotion. “I always had a lot of pleasure talking with him. He passionately loved France and its history”did he declare.