Aged 27, almost a contemporary of Jordan Bardella, the popular president of the RN who is only two years older, Louis Sarkozy is settling in Paris after growing up in the United States, where he obtained a master's degree in international relations. “No one loves his country like someone who lives far from it.” He confides, as he prepares to leave his home located in the state of Maryland, in the distant suburbs of the capital Washington.
A return preceded by notable appearances on the LCI news channel – owned by its godfather Martin Bouygues – and above all a meeting a week ago with a hundred young LR from Paris in a pub in the 12th arrondissement, a first which could be followed by others at the start of the year.
“It brings a lot of freshness,” says Emmanuelle Brisson, a young LR executive present at the evening. An event marked by a renewed mobilization among young LR, just as confused as the party since the departure of their president Guilhem Carayon who joined Eric Ciotti's alliance with the RN in June.
His father Nicolas Sarkozy is full of praise for him. “When I see this flame, this desire to debate, this courage, I like it. It scares me for him and I like it,” he declared at the end of September on CNews.
Support for Beauvau
In his interventions, Louis Sarkozy, whose main activity is the production of documentaries, is very political. He gives his unconditional support to Bruno Retailleau, the resigning Minister of the Interior who recently showed him, according to Le Figaro, the apartments in Beauvau where he had lived as a child, the springboard for his father in the conquest of the Élysée.
The son of the former president says all the good things he thinks of the man who donned the costume of France's first cop for three months, not hesitating to present him as the “only light” who appeared in “the sad political sequence that we have just experienced.”
“If we do our job, if we approach things with honesty, with strength and conviction, people know it and they recognize it,” underlines the son of the former president, in reference to Bruno's breakthrough in the polls. Retailleau since his arrival in Beauvau.
The other right-wing personality who appeals to Louis Sarkozy is David Lisnard, president of the influential Association of Mayors of France (AMF), who has made the fight against bureaucracy his hobby horse. “He offers what the country needs. A France that works, looks to the future, that depends less on public spending,” says the son of the ex-president who grew up in New York, studied in the United States and co-wrote a book with his mother Cécilia Attias, entitled “A desire for disagreements”.
“The regalian is Retailleau. The liberal is Lisnard,” he says, convinced that the Republicans have “a lot of talent.” He also says he is a “big fan” of MEP François-Xavier Bellamy and confesses his “admiration” for Laurent Wauquiez, the boss of LR deputies.
He bluntly deplores that the right is divided: “On the left, there is a leader, it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon. At the RN there is a leader, Marine Le Pen. And there are eight of us! Mathematically, it’s problematic,” he regrets, calling for “recovering all the pieces that work to put them in a single strike force.”
Among the Sarkozysts, his arrival in the spotlight is welcomed, like the Minister of Sports Gil Avérous: “He was in a good school. He has this father who knew how to prepare him and give him desire,” underlines the mayor of Châteauroux.
