He defends himself, as always. Nicolas Sarkozy, in “Le Figaro”, still and always proclaims his innocence after his conviction. Recurring communication operation.
Nicolas Sarkozy or the man who never gives up. On the judicial side, he goes back to the niche, appeals in cassation in the wiretapping case and denounces in Le Figaro THE “political fight” of “certain magistrates” from his view. He affirms it, everything is false, illegal, insane.
So much for this condemnation. But Nicolas Sarkozy is also combative on other matters: Libyan financing, “folder is empty”, insists the former head of state. Summary of his stance on legal matters: “There is no question of looking down.”
A combative Nicolas Sarkozy on the justice and political side, he still sees himself at the center of the game. The former president, long central and emblematic figure of the right. He distributes the good points: on the pension reform he judges “necessary”, he explains that he does not regret his choice to support Emmanuel Macron.
Sarkozy still pleads for a Macron-LR rapprochement
And Nicolas Sakorzy revives his idea of union with the right: “The Republicans miss Emmanuel Macron to reach an absolute majorityhe explains before continuing if the president does not frankly extend his hand to the right and if on their side the Republicans remain on their own, they are not likely to find themselves”. Like a little air of deja vu.
Nicolas Sarkozy is still pleading for an LR-Macron alliance and one can wonder about the realism of such a project. Without questioning Nicolas Sarkozy’s political sense, the pension episode showed that the LRs were not ready to play the game. The presidential majority has already paid to see.
If the scenario was perhaps possible a year ago, who can really believe that the right would go behind Emmanuel Macron in the period? Moreover, the right is itself in such a crisis that the very injunction to regroup seems unrealistic.
The right and Nicolas Sarkozy, the story of a loss of love
Have you seen the messages of support in recent days, following the conviction of the former president? They can be counted on the fingers of one hand and come mainly from historical Sarkozyists like Nadine Morano or officials doing minimum service, like Olivier Marleix, the boss of the LR group in the Assembly.
We especially noticed the deafening silence of the young LR guard. Is this the sign that a page has already been turned? That Nicolas Sarkozy no longer has the weight he had at the time? If the answer is yes, a good part of the interview of the Figaro is therefore pure display and the injunctions of the former president, a wishful thinking…