Presidential: Nicolas Sarkozy is counting on an agreement with Emmanuel Macron in the legislative elections

Info BFMTV – The announcement of the vote in the second round of the former president for his successor could lead to a possible alliance between LR and LaREM. “It’s our political survival that is at stake,” says the former boss of the right. Negotiated support. While Nicolas Sarkozy announced this Tuesday morning that he was going to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round, this gesture is not free and could lead to an agreement between Les Républicains and La République en Marche. departmental advisers LR and UDI of Hauts-de-Seine, the former president confided in a possible alliance with his successor. “Our political survival at stake” “Either you watch the trains pass for 5 years, or you have parliamentarians and a few ministers! It is our political survival that is at stake”, he said, according to one of the participants in BFMTV. After the pitiful score of Valérie Pécresse in the first round (4.7%), it’s time to save the furniture on the right, in particular by trying to keep a solid group of deputies in the National Assembly. “The 100 outgoing LR deputies could be candidates without LaREM competition”, said the former tenant of the Élysée.”Able to defend this position with Emmanuel Macron”In g As a counterpart, the right-wing party would also not present a candidate against the outgoing deputies of the presidential majority. “I am able to defend this position with Emmanuel Macron”, assured the former head of state. The agreement with Emmanuel Macron, however, left doubts in the camp of the former candidate Valérie Pécresse last week. “There will be some rallies, in particular a few people stamped very Sarkozyists. But it will be very far from being a majority”, assured Dominique Estrosi-Sassone, senator and spokesperson for the campaign last Thursday at BFMTV.com. Not to mention that Nicolas Sarkozy no longer has any function within the LR and that “It would take the agreement of Christian Jacob, the boss of the party, to reach such an agreement. “Emmanuel Macron failed in his five-year term and generated votes of despair. The way to correct this will be through the legislative elections, because it is in parliament that the texts are voted”, he explained this Tuesday morning, before the announcement of Nicolas Sarkozy on LCI, very far from the tone of the ex-president. The agreement between LR and LaREM, even under the high patronage of Nicolas Sarkozy, still seems distant. Thomas Soulié and Marie-Pierre Bourgeois