Damn you can't lie. His father began his rise to the town hall of Neuilly at just 28 years old. Louis Sarkozy, 27, is no longer hiding: he too has the political bug, and the ambition that goes with it. He nevertheless strives to differentiate himself from the father figure, icon of the French right, without denying his heritage. “It happens that our opinions differ, like on the conflict in Ukraine”he confides, which does not prevent the « chef »as he calls it, to encourage him.
A regular guest on news channels to comment on French and American news, the young man is working on his notoriety and his network. Recently received in Beauvau, he spoke with Bruno Retailleau and found familiar places. Ministerial apartments where he grew up when his mother, Cécilia Sarkozy, worked with her husband. At the time, television cameras immortalized the image of a 5-year-old boy who came to disturb his father in his office. Louis Sarkozy remains closely attached to Beauvau… “Come back? he comments as he leaves the premises. Maybe, but not necessarily visiting! »
“What sets him apart? He looks to the future”
Paradoxically, his attachment to France was built… in the United States. A distance which sometimes arouses criticism. What does he know about his own country? “No one loves his country as much as someone who has lived far from it”he replies. Even if he also assumes a form of fascination for the great America. In 2007, wasn't his father nicknamed “Sarkozy the American” ? Éric Besson, then national secretary of the PS, described it in “American neoconservative with a French passport”.
Of course, Louis Sarkozy is only at the beginning. But it's hard not to draw plans for the emergence of a Kennedy-style dynasty. “Louis has real political ambition”slips the entourage of the Minister of the Interior. “Bruno Retailleau was seduced by his personality, the finesse of his analyzes and his energy. He's not just a young activistinsists a close friend of the minister, he has it under the pedal. » An observation shared by ministers Sébastien Lecornu, Rachida Dati and the LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, who recently met him. Being a “son of” easily opens the doors to places of power, even when you have not yet proven anything. Michel Barnier himself received it at Matignon a few hours before the censure vote. While traveling in Israel at the beginning of December, Louis Sarkozy visited localities near the border with Lebanon, before meeting Isaac Herzog, president of the Hebrew state, and Amir Ohana, president of the Knesset. In Belgium, he participated in a meeting at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) alongside Georges-Louis Bouchez, leader of the Reform Movement (MR), a figure of the Belgian right, who has now become a “political friend”.
Louis the American is worried about the fragility of the West, going through a cultural crisis faced with the spread of “recourse” ideologies such as Islamism or Wokism
From his American experience, Louis Sarkozy draws a reflection on the question of integration. Inspired by the re-election of Donald Trump and his ability to unite minorities around a unified national narrative, rather than by addressing isolated groups, Louis Sarkozy defends assimilation through better integration, from the school benches. While sharing, more prosaically, Retailleau's firm line on immigration, rather than the ” at the same time “ Macronian. Likewise, Louis the American is worried about the fragility of the West, going through a cultural crisis faced with the spread of “recourse” ideologies such as Islamism or Wokism.
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“What sets him apart from other voices on the right? He looks more towards the futurecomments Bruno Retailleau’s entourage, in contrast with Zemmour, Ciotti or Le Pen, linked to a nostalgia for the past. » They say: “It was better before. » Louis Sarkozy responds: “It will be better tomorrow. »
When his father entered the Élysée, Louis was 10 years old, too young to understand the scope of the decisions made by his father, particularly in moments of crisis. “The main part of this period is the bond I had with my security officers, who raised me”he confides. Committed to his own path, Louis Sarkozy confronted a few hundred young right-wing activists this Saturday evening in a Parisian room to present some ideas, the outline of a vision. An influx which demonstrates that the name “Sarkozy” still thrills the people of the right.
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