After his defeat by François Hollande in May 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy withdrew from Politics for more than two years. He came back from his time in the "wilderness" in 2014 to reorganise the UMP party which became "The Republican" Party.
A Primary Election to select the official Party Candidate for the Presidential Election in May 2017 will be held next November.
Nicolas Sarkozy will probably be one of the candidates just like Alain Juppé and François Fillon.
Sarkozy, who published a book this week about his past policies and aims, was invited by the F2 TV Channel for their program "Words and Acts", to be questioned by Journalists and a panel of French people.
Several Ministers were successively asked to debate with Nicolas Sarkozy but they all refused the invitation, apparently on the insistance of President Hollande !
Nicolas Sarkozy's performance was astounding ! He was completely relaxed and he displayed a great grasp and understanding of the complexities of the current problems faced by the Government. However, like in his book, his facts were sometimes inexact, but this never invalidated the point of view he was trying to drive home.
The most important measures to redress the French Economy proposed by Sarkozy were a tax reduction shock, raising the retirement age for Pension Rights to 63 and to permit each company to determine with the employees, the length of the working week.
To conclude, one can understand why no Minister dared to join the debate ! President Hollande always likes to claim that he is audacious, but last night it was Sarkozy who really was "audacious" and a pleasure to see !
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