If music gives the precise measure of tempo, in view of what’s happening, one is forced to say that it is total cacophony at the UMP, which presents, on this occasion, the image of a fragmented and quarrelsome party.
Both camps, but they should rather be called “clans” as the tone escalates and the words become less and less friendly, are clashing in this power struggle whose outcome is hard to predict, with spite seeming to overshadow the logic of facts and critical analysis.
The electoral consultation of the republican right party unfortunately turned into a fiasco due to excess of power (not easy when one is used to being a state party relying on public affairs) and excess of weakness (it is not easy to become an opposition party and have to organize everything by oneself).
One thing is certain: The result, in the official pro-Copé version or in that demanded by pro-Fillon, presents no certainty, and thus, the president of the UMP can boast of being designated by the Commission but not of being elected by the members.
For this “Dallas” with vinaigrette dressing to find an epilogue, the now adversaries could draw inspiration from reading “Ratiocinis in ludo aleae” (reasoning on dice games).
That might be a solution…
The events of the day:
The relentless battle for the presidency of the UMP resumed in earnest this Wednesday, with Fillon’s camp demanding victory through a reintegration of overseas votes and proposing Alain Juppé as a mediator.
The president of the UMP, Jean-François Copé, rejected his opponents’ demands. “There have been results, now we need to come together and work together,” he told the press in the corridors of the National Assembly. “There is an appeals commission, we will go to the appeals commission if necessary, which will allow us to take a closer look at the results in Nice!” he then added.
This saga is not intended to restore the image of a party that was seeking, with the election of its new president, the condition of a new start after electoral defeats in the presidential and legislative elections.
Indeed, caustic comments were not lacking: “The UMP is the Ivory Coast. One wonders who is Ouattara and who is Gbagbo. This cockfight where they’re plucking each other in turn is catastrophic,” ironically remarked Gilbert Collard, FN deputy, on BFMTV.
Fortunately, at the opposite end, some see the bright side of things, according to the statement of former Minister of Justice Rachida Dati, who, for her part, saw “a living party, a democratically living party, alive in terms of ideas…” and concluded: “We are not going to waste this great moment of democracy!” Probably, last Sunday, Mrs. Dati was on an excursion to the moon…
