Emmanuel Macron and Nicolas Sarkozy had dinner together on Sunday after the presidential interview

2023-09-27 18:26:34

They had not been able to see each other this summer at Fort de Brégançon, as they had become accustomed to. Emmanuel Macron and Nicolas Sarkozy therefore had dinner together on Sunday September 24 in the evening, according to our information. A first back-to-school and reunion meeting to calm relations after the publication of the book “Le Temps des combats” by the former head of state.

“Emmanuel Macron did not like the book,” confides one of his interlocutors, and, in particular, some critical passages written by the former president on the domestic and international policy conducted by France. The head of state also did not appreciate the doubts expressed by his predecessor on the strategy of the Élysée as on the government casting.

Sunday evening, after Emmanuel Macron’s interview on TF1 and France 2, the current and former president took the time to talk politics in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The opportunity also to discuss the European elections, as the future of the right. Emmanuel Macron has never forgotten that he had not been able to count on LR votes during the pension reform, despite the multiplication of exchanges with the president of the party, and the group presidents. He has no intention of rushing now.

Nicolas Sarkozy advocates a common list for Europeans

Nicolas Sarkozy is on another line. “Without a rally, the right has no chance of winning,” he pointed out at the end of August in Le Parisien – Today in France. He said it again to the head of state: we must move, stop procrastinating. According to the former president, in addition to a government contract that he has been calling for for almost two years, we must work on a list common to the European Renaissance-LR to prevent his political family from another electoral failure.

This is the danger that awaits the Republicans, he judges, with a list led by François-Xavier Bellamy. He does not see the space that the MEP could have between Jordan Bardella for the RN and Marion Maréchal for Reconquête. In any case, Nicolas Sarkozy does not intend to support him and does not hide it. Hence the need, according to him, to move quickly to bring together the Macronist and LR political forces.

And why not go so far as to provide for an agreement between the right and the presidential majority for the municipal elections? In his eyes, everyone would come out a winner.

Coincidentally, a few days later, and still according to our information, it was Brigitte Macron’s turn to meet with Nicolas Sarkozy, at the Gustave Roussy center, without microphones or cameras, this Wednesday, to talk about research against childhood cancer. Notably.