The former President of the Republic speaks this Sunday, June 16 in the columns of the JDD. What to remember from this interview.
Nicolas Sarkozy criticizes Eric Ciotti’s decision to join the National Rally – because it carries the risk, in his eyes, that the contested boss of LR becomes “a “supplementary” of the RN -, and considers that Jordan Bardella lacks experience to be Prime Minister.
Eric Ciotti
Eric Ciotti, whose exclusion from the presidency of the Republicans was invalidated by the courts, “should have submitted to the governing bodies of his party his conviction of the need for an alliance with the RN and proposed to members to decide by electronic vote within a short time”estimates the former President of the Republic in the JDD.
“The question would then have been resolved calmly and incontestably. There would not have been a denial of democracy”adds the former boss of the right.
The LR-RN alliance
On the merits, Nicolas Sarkozy judges this LR-RN alliance “all the more inappropriate when the Republican right is so weak because it is then an absorption”. “Being the deputy of the RN is not an ambition but an acknowledgment of renunciation”he summarizes.
“Allying yourself with the National Rally today means putting yourself in the shoes of a 28-year-old young man who, if he succeeds, will not leave your place, and if he fails, will take you with him”he insists.
Jordan Bardella “was never in a position to manage anything” And “under 30 years old”notes the former head of state. “Can we lead France when we are so young and inexperienced? Every French person must consider this reality.”
Dissolution
The former president also criticizes the dissolution decided by Emmanuel Macron, “a major risk for the country as well as for the president”.
“For the country, already fractured, because this could plunge it into chaos from which it will have the greatest difficulty emerging. And for the president, who had three years left in his mandate, and whom I would have preferred if he used them to accomplish what the French wanted.”he developed.
