His word is rare.
Member of the Constitutional Council since 2019, Alain Juppé no longer has the right to express himself as freely as before.
And must keep a certain reserve on national politics and electoral or partisan issues.
While the right must choose a new boss in December, this end of the year also marks the twenty years of the creation of the UMP in 2002, a few months after the particular re-election of Jacques Chirac against Jean-Marie Le Pen.
On this occasion, the former prime minister granted an interview to
Le Parisien
.
A fervent standard-bearer of a centre-right in his former electoral battles, Alain Juppé hammers home “
one of
(his)
ideas that have always been there, and still today
”: “
Only the union of the right and the center allows us to win the elections.
»
A message that is not insignificant in a context where the government, without an absolute majority, is trying to rely on the group of Republicans in the National Assembly to adopt certain texts of laws.
If Nicolas Sarkozy recently pleaded, in a river interview with the
JDD,
for
"a government agreement
" between Emmanuel Macron and the right, Alain Juppé does not go that far.
The former mayor of Bordeaux even believes that the UMP was
"an undeniable success and one of the engines of victory in 2007"
when the right-wing candidate at the time was not
"a strong supporter"
of the
“operation”
before
“retrieving” it.
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And the former Minister of Foreign Affairs to start the collapse of the right ten years ago: "
It went haywire from 2012 when a right-wing drift began from part of the UMP from the centrists.
“
The UMP then lost part of its meaning to become LR and change its identity in reality
”, stings the one who was boss of the party between November 2002 and July 2004.
“
The governing parties are in decline
”
Without pronouncing in detail on the atmosphere and the current political equation, Alain Juppé thinks that “
the government parties are in total decline, both on the left and on the right.
Clear reference to the cleavage established since 2017 between Emmanuel Macron, holding a progressive and European line, and Marine Le Pen, supporter of a nationalist right.
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For Alain Juppé, “
everyone tries to cultivate
” a
“spirit of gathering”,
“
with various happinesses
”.
Faced with
“the rise of populism and fanaticism, of a form of obscurantism”
, the unsuccessful candidate for the 2016 right-wing primary however remains optimistic:
“The risk is manageable because the French people are attached to republican values. »