“I think Nicolas Sarkozy may be right before the others“, assures Sunday, October 23 on franceinfo Franck Louvrier, LR mayor of La Baule and former communications adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy. This Sunday, the former head of state suggests in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, that the head of the State finds an agreement with the LR party to compensate for its minority in the National Assembly. A proposal hailed by Nicolas Sarkozy’s former communications adviser who recalls that “the right has always won when united with the center“.
franceinfo: Do you really think that this speech by Nicolas Sarkozy can move the lines?
Franck Louvrier: It is always very useful to have a clear vision for our country with an interview full of convictions, energy and a free spirit. My feeling is that today we are in a complicated political situation. The 49.3 is the tool we use to ultimately force the passage of reforms. It is a tool for getting through crises, but at some point we will have to find a stable, absolute majority, beyond partisan commitments. This is the idea and the state of mind of this interview. The phrase I remember is ‘if I had only worked with people with whom I agreed. I would be alone, very alone. There, we are today, in a situation where, in the end, we can see it, France is mainly on the right in its ideas but today, it did not manage to have an absolute majority.
He repeated in this interview that if he had to support Emmanuel Macron again, he would. Isn’t he out of step with his political family today?
No, I think he rather has the vision that we should have of a majority, that is to say a way of bringing people together. The right has always won when it was united with the centre, whether in the days of Jacques Chirac or in the days of Nicolas Sarkozy. Why ? Because she knew how to open up on social issues and beyond the partisan positions of the parties. It is this dynamic that we must create today. If the right wants, at some point, to be able to lead the country, it must at all costs be open to social issues. For example, the end-of-life debate is completely absent. It’s a shame, because it’s a subject that affects everyone. On all these issues, they must create a debate that does not exist today.
LR did not table a motion of no confidence from the Republicans in the face of the government’s 49.3, but will possibly do so later if the situation requires it. Don’t you have the feeling of a gap between the line defended by Nicolas Sarkozy and the party line?
Personally, I think that Nicolas Sarkozy may be right before the others. And when we are right earlier, we are not always heard. In this case, as we can clearly see today, it is not the lowest common denominator that will make the Republicans win. The LRs are the minority of the minority in the National Assembly and therefore, as a result, they will not pass the majority. We can clearly see that the agreement that can be put in place is an agreement on ideas and not small agreements over time. I think we have to agree on issues such as retirement issues, as Nicolas Sarkozy says. All these subjects must be agreed in order to be able to succeed, because I remind you that the countdown has already begun. The presidential term is a short term and the reforms must be successful. And the idea is to help the country win.