the circle of chiraquians in peril of disappearing | EUROtoday

En revealing his promise to Marine Le Pen to not name for a Republican entrance for future elections, and by suggesting {that a} rapprochement of the fitting might be the way in which to avoid wasting his former political household, Nicolas Sarkozy blew up a dike. He assumed it, affirming that the political way forward for the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering would undergo “a break with part of its history”. The former president additionally in contrast Jordan Bardella, whom he acquired through the summer season, to “RPR [Rassemblement pour la République] in the time of Chirac »believing that “his speech is not very different from ours at the time”.

Comments deemed unacceptable by a handful of Chiraquians. The former LR presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse, advisor to Jacques Chirac on the Elysée, launched a name for a “startle”judging that there was “nothing in common between the heirs of Gaullism and the heirs of Lepenism”, in a textual content revealed on December 14 by La Tribune Sunday.

Two days later, one other Chiracian, Jean-François Copé, in flip protested on the comparability made by Mr. Sarkozy: “No, Jordan Bardella is really not Jacques Chirac! » In The ExpressMr. Chirac’s former minister believes that they belong to “two antinomic political families with no possible connection” : “Gaullism, Chiraquism and even Sarkozyism have always been built around an intangible principle: the absence of any compromise with the extreme right. »

Since his accession to the presidency of the Republic, Mr. Chirac had protected the cordon santé between the right and the extreme right. In 1998, he solemnly intervened on television to condemn the five regional presidents who had accepted, to be elected, the votes of councilors who were members of the National Front, recalling that France was pulling “his greatness” values “of liberty, equality and fraternity”. He had lectured the Republican proper, telling them that they might “convince without denying yourself” by compromising with a celebration “racist and xenophobic in nature”. In 2007, shortly earlier than the election of Mr. Sarkozy, Mr. Chirac delivered this political testomony to the French: “Never cope with extremism. »

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