Nicolas Sarkozy has a hard time with the candidates for the Élysée from his political family.
He reproaches them either for not being sufficiently grateful, or for not having made their classes, like him, in adversity.
Or both.
It must be said that his successors have rarely played the parentage card, imitating a certain Nicolas Sarkozy against Jacques Chirac, who had sung the air of rupture with talent.
Valérie Pécresse did not want to do the same.
But she put a lot of emphasis on what she owed to Jacques Chirac.
And his team, made up of ex-fillonists and ex-juppeists, did not help.
Made a first phone call on the day of his victory after the second round of the primary, the former host of the Élysée only wanted to remember the blunders and misunderstandings that plagued the following two months.
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