This evening at the Palais Nikaia (6:30 PM), Nicolas Sarkozy will be the guest of the departmental republican right, which has rallied behind him, except for a few significant defections such as Jean Leonetti, for this primary that will elect the candidate for the 2017 presidential election.
The troops summoned by the local barons, primarily the one who “holds the handlebars,” as he describes himself, Christian Estrosi, then Eric Ciotti, the campaign spokesperson, followed by the elected officials and the vast assembly of beneficiaries of local power’s favors, will undoubtedly display their enthusiastic support for the candidate in one of the last meetings before the vote on November 20.
In this campaign, like a lunar Pierrot*, Nicolas Sarkozy shows himself as he is: faithless and lawless, possessing an ideological flexibility and political opportunism that withstands all tests, a yarn-spinning beyond reason. After having been mayor of Neuilly (not exactly an underprivileged suburb), president of CD 92 (the richest in France), deputy, minister, and President of the Republic, it takes some nerve to say, “I am a candidate to talk about the daily life of the French, not to be the representative of an elite for whom everything is going well.”
Indeed, when living in a luxurious house amidst billionaires in the most elegant district of Paris, one becomes the ideal candidate of the popular right…
But there are myths… and reality.
