If he sometimes has a political sense, François Hollande has lost none of his sense of humor, to use the words of an old song.
Guest of “Quotidien” Thursday evening, the ex-president returned to the journey that Gabriel Attal has made in Matignon since he was appointed prime minister a month ago.
Asked about the former commitment of the head of government to the left, including his capacity as advisor to the former Minister of Health Marisol Touraine (2012-2017), the socialist said
“having had no contact with him”
.
For the former head of state, Gabriel Attal
“obviously has talent”
.
“It’s still a responsibility to be prime minister under 35.
He surely has communication skills, even if they are just formulas,”
begins by commenting on the former head of state to better exaggerate the style and politics of Matignon’s host then.
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After listening to the general policy speech, delivered at the end of January at the National Assembly,
"the themes and expressions"
that Gabriel Attal
"uses"
, -
"even recently to go and create housing with his teeth"
, indicates t - he -,
“it made him think tirelessly of Nicolas Sarkozy.”
“In a way, Gabriel Attal is the return of Nicolas Sarkozy
,” squeaks François Hollande.
Considering that the comparison must
“please”
his former opponent from 2012.
“They are the same formulas, the same rules, the same processes.
“It’s not prospective, it’s retrospective
,” the former first secretary of the PS squeaks again.
“Sarkozy without Sarkozy”
And to take out the sulphate against this unexpected return.
“It is surprising for all those who had been in this fight, they were on the left, to have wanted at one point, through the candidacy which was (his) to have wanted to dismiss Nicolas Sarkozy to find himself six years or seven years with Nicolas Sarkozy without Nicolas Sarkozy,”
jokes the Corrézien.
Who adds, with a grin:
“Sometimes the original is better, but the original is prevented for the moment.”
Triggering laughter from the audience.
A dig in reference to the new legal conviction of Nicolas Sarkozy on appeal, Wednesday, in the so-called Bygmalion affair, on the campaign accounts of the president-candidate in 2012. We always come back to it...