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Nicolas Sarkozy was once again alongside Emmanuel Macron for the ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the landing in Provence. Even if all the former French Heads of State had been invited by the President of the Republic, he is the only one to have made the trip to the necropolis of Boulouris.
With our special correspondent at Boulouris, Valérie Gas
Nicolas Sarkozy pretends to be astonished that it is surprised that he responds present at each invitation of Emmanuel Macron. To hear him, he is simply in his role of former president.
" It was my absolute duty to be here. I could not say " excuse me, I'm not free, I'm cycling" , anyway ! Imagine that I replied that I do not come because I was on vacation. "
A tackle to François Hollande, invited too, but who did not come and invoked an incompatibility with his personal agenda. And an end of non-receipt to those who on the right do not appreciate that it gives the impression of supporting Emmanuel Macron.
" I leave comments all to be free, I do not do politics anymore. I really do not see how I could have decently refused an invitation that also reflects a Republican courtesy to which I am sensitive and it is true. After that, I sometimes speak with President Macron. These conversations are private conversations. "
Nicolas Sarkozy assumes and even more: " I have the impression that even President Putin has been invited to discuss with President Macron, I believe on the 19th, and I approve this initiative. "
An initiative they will certainly have discussed during lunch that Emmanuel Macron and Nicolas Sarkozy shared after the ceremony with the Ivorian and Guinean presidents. A little more than republican courtesy. The sign of a complicity that they take pleasure to display.