Arthur de Laborde 07:34, February 02, 2023

In the turmoil with its pension reform, the executive is counting on the support of the right to get its text passed.

And unexpected support could convince elected Republicans: in an interview with "Figaro Magazine", Nicolas Sarkozy calls for unity.

A file he knows well: the former president had also passed a reform in 2010.

To pass its pension reform, the executive is counting above all on the Republicans.

However, despite the support of Eric Ciotti, several LR deputies have already announced the color, they will not vote for this bill as it stands.

However, if they do not hear Éric Ciotti, they will perhaps let themselves be convinced by Nicolas Sarkozy.

The former President of the Republic had himself, in 2010, carried out a reform to push back the retirement age to 62 years.

The ex-leader of the Republicans, so far silent on the pension reform, calls on his political family to support the bill, in an interview which will appear this Friday in

Figaro Magazine

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Mobilize to destabilize the left

According to Nicolas Sarkozy, the right should take into account the fights that were his.

This position of the former president, always very listened to within his political family, is timely for the executive at a time when the LR deputies are divided on the attitude to adopt.

The government will indeed need about forty of their votes to have its text adopted and avoid recourse to 49.3.

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The former tenant of the Elysée notably delivers his own vision of consultation on such a sensitive issue.

"The more you negotiate, the more you mobilize the left, which thinks you are going to give in, and the more you demobilize the right, which no longer understands what you want to do", explains Nicolas Sarkozy, citing the example of his own pension reform adopted in 2010. At the time, unlike Emmanuel Macron, Nicolas Sarkozy had taken an electoral risk since he was going to be a candidate fifteen months later.

But when asked if he thinks it weighed in his defeat in 2012, the former head of state believes that "it is not this reform that I paid for".