Nicolas Sarkozy and Xavier Bertrand conflict over the query of the Republican entrance | EUROtoday
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UA yawning hole at this time separates two main figures of the fitting. Guest Sunday December 7 from Political points on France Inter, France Télévisions and The WorldXavier Bertrand unambiguously reaffirmed his opposition to any settlement with the National Rally. “My fight against the extremes still stands: neither LFI nor National Rally,” he insisted to our colleagues.
These statements observe the publication, in La Tribune Sundayextracts from Nicolas Sarkozy’s subsequent guide through which the previous head of state assures Marine Le Pen that he won’t ever take part in a “republican front” in opposition to the RN and pleads for “the widest possible gathering” on the fitting.
The 2007 line or the break: Xavier Bertrand chooses consistency
“I prefer the political positions of Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007,” stated the president of Hauts-de-France, recalling the time when the UMP refused any collusion with the far proper. “No alliance, no collusion with the extremes”, he summarizes, including that he has “more ambition” for LR than “running behind the National Rally or in front”.
As for the expression “union of the rights”, Xavier Bertrand instantly rejects it: “No, it is the union of the right with the extreme right. Let him go to the National Rally! »
From a health cell to the political bomb: the book that shakes the right
The book at the origin of the controversy, Diary of a prisonerwill be released on December 10. Nicolas Sarkozy wrote it in its entirety during his twenty days of detention at La Santé prison, from October 21 to November 10, 2025, after his sentence to five years at first instance for criminal conspiracy in the Libyan financing affair of 2007. “I wrote to Bic on a small plywood table, every day,” he tells the Figaro. The slips have been despatched to his attorneys then to his secretary for modifying. Released below strict judicial supervision (ban on leaving the territory and contacting the protagonists within the case, together with Gérald Darmanin), he’s awaiting his enchantment trial scheduled for March 16 to June 3, 2026.
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In his work, the previous president assumes to not maintain a “low profile” within the face of justice and descriptions the contours of a brand new proper, free of any condemnation or sidelining. A turning level that Xavier Bertrand categorically refuses.
Within LR, cacophony units in: Laurent Wauquiez defends “anything but LFI”, even when it means voting RN; Bruno Retailleau castigates the “socialist DNA” of the Lepéniste get together; and, in response to The WorldLR voters now say they’re as inclined to an alliance with the RN as with the presidential majority. The fracture is full.
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