“This executive is pretending to reform the country”
blasted Jean-François Copé this Sunday at the microphone of Radio J. The former Chiraquian minister denounced the
“boulevard”
offered to Marine Le Pen by a government which
“does not have the political means”
to reform the country.
The one who has already spoken out in favor of a government agreement between the Macron camp and the right has pleaded for a single candidate in 2027, the only chance according to him to avoid a second round between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen .
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“If Valérie Pécresse had made 12% in the presidential election, the final in 2022 was Mélenchon-Le Pen,”
warned Jean-François Copé.
The councilor was concerned about the multiplication of potential candidates (right and center) for the next election.
“Xavier Bertrand, Laurent Wauquiez, Édouard Philippe, David Lisnard, Bruno Le Maire, Gérald Darmanin... for the French, they are on the right and that makes six candidates.
François Bayrou thinks perhaps.
We are at six and a half, seven
,” he lamented.
“When we have too many candidates, I don’t see how we manage to get through this because the presidential election is two rounds
,” he said, recalling
“that on the far right, there is no has only one candidate, Marine Le Pen.
On the far left, there is only one candidate, (Jean-Luc Mélenchon, editor’s note).”
Withdrawal from national politics since 2016, following his score in the right-wing primary (0.3%), Jean-François Copé expressed “his frustration” at not being able to put “his maturity at the service of the French” policy.
“I have transformed myself into a bit of a coach and I sometimes share a certain number of thoughts with those who wish to share that with me,”
he explained, probably referring to his lunch earlier this month with Édouard Philip.
While Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he would appeal to the Court of Cassation after his conviction this Wednesday in second instance in the “Bygmalion” affair, Jean-François Copé described the decision as
“far from innocuous”
.
Completely exonerated in this affair, the man who was president of the UMP at the time of the events was pleased that justice had given him “his honor”.