This is what is called setting foot in the dish.
We need a vote and we must prevent Xavier Bertrand, this is the message of Brice Hortefeux about the choice of the right-wing candidate for the presidential election.
The former Minister of the Interior is the oldest, closest and most loyal of Nicolas Sarkozy's friends.
His position taken after the conviction of the former head of state is therefore not neutral.
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Admittedly, since the opening of the investigation into the supposed Libyan financing of the 2007 campaign, the two men have not been allowed to speak to each other.
It is therefore wrong to conclude from this interview with
Le Figaro that
Hortefeux is mandated by Sarkozy to express aloud what he thinks softly.
But the elected Auvergne has known for a long time that, whatever he says, his words will be decrypted in the light of their irrefutable link.
However, three messages are delivered here.
The first is a clarification.
No, Emmanuel Macron is not the best candidate on the right.
A five-year term
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