In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, the former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy suggested to Emmanuel Macron to turn “more frankly” to the right in order to conclude a “political agreement” to compensate for his lack of a majority. absolute in the National Assembly.
Valuable advice. President Emmanuel Macron should turn to the right “in a more outspoken way”, urges it on Sunday Nicolas Sarkozysuggesting that he conclude “a political agreement” to make up for his lack of an absolute majority in the Assembly.
“It is not insulting anyone to recall that President Macron comes from the left”, explains Nicolas Sarkozy in a river interview with the Journal du Dimanche: “I would sometimes like him to cross the Rubicon more frankly, because today France is for the most part on the side of the party of authority, of firmness, of freedom. Call it center right, center, republican right, it doesn’t matter: the country’s strategic axis is clearly there.
The former President of the Republic (2007-2012) and founder of the Republicans (LR) assumes in this interview his support for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential campaign, to the detriment of the candidate of his camp Valérie Pécresse: “And if it were to be done again, I would do it again”.
He pays tribute to the current president, credited with “coldness, moderation and experience”. “The president has indisputable intuitions and experience. But I observe that he can sometimes be tempted to stop in the middle of the ford. These are the disadvantages of ‘at the same time’”, he explains.
Nicolas Sarkozy finally points out the limits of the49.3 of the Constitutionwhich makes it possible to pass a law in the Assembly without a vote, unless the vote of a motion of censure overthrows the government.
Emmanuel Macron, he underlines, “could also seek to make a political agreement in good and due form with all the good wills ready to constitute a majority in the higher interest of the country. We never deny ourselves when we make the choice of the general interest”.