The proposal by Alain Juppé to create a collegial body to re-examine the results of the UMP presidential election was accepted on Thursday, November 22, by the Fillon and Copé factions.
In a statement, the mayor of Bordeaux detailed what he intended to implement to get the UMP out of the impasse: “The commission that I will preside over will deliver its conclusions within two weeks” and “will meet at the beginning of next week,” he indicated. It will interview “the president of the appeals committee to set a work schedule with him” as well as “the president of the Cocoe to assess the conditions under which this commission proclaimed the results.”
Are we therefore moving towards mediation of which the mayor of Bordeaux and founder of the UMP with Jacques Chirac would be the moral guarantor?
It’s hard to believe. Firstly, because there will inevitably be a winner, and it’s hard to see why Jean-François Copé, declared as such by the electoral commission, should give it up. He can certainly give some ground in the management of the party but certainly not relinquish “his” place to François Fillon. And since the candidates were only those two…?
The story of the three overseas territories omitted from the vote count (how could no one have noticed when one vote was being chased?) introduces the ridiculous to an election that was a massive fraud where both factions organized as they could to get the upper hand over the other.
We know very well how things go in these cases: one thinks they’re smarter than the others, gets caught red-handed, and then can’t stop.
Moreover, when one sees the number of registered voters in certain federations, how can one not immediately understand that the stuffing, even before it takes place in the ballot boxes, is in the membership list, the rest being the logical consequence.
Because on the day of an election, who will check if the signatures on the proxy forms are authentic or if there’s no forgery?
Furthermore, the accusations of cheating are becoming more virulent, and it is highly probable that the coming days will still bring us surprises.
For the moment, the real surprise is the fact that Alain Juppé, who at the UMP was considered ‘cold and distant’ and therefore out of the game, has become indispensable up to the point of being a sort of noble father.
Alain Juppé the peacemaker: which shows that politics truly is the art of the possible!
