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The 27-year-old has made it clear in latest weeks {that a} technique like Trump’s, fusing a marketing campaign targeted on a no-holds-barred strategy to immigration with daring rhetoric, may discover a receptive viewers in France given the Republican candidate’s success siphoning Black, Latino and feminine voters from the Democratic party.
“The Muslim vote, particularly, affords a chance, as this inhabitants is usually extra conservative and at odds with the sexual wokeism of the left,” Sarkozy wrote on a Belgian information web site that had simply made him its star columnist.
On Saturday, Sarkozy will take pleasure in one thing of a coming-out party. He is to be the visitor of honor on the Paris Christmas party of the Jeunes Républicains, the youth wing of his father’s political party, Les Républicains. Organizers have been broadly selling his look.
But whereas Sarkozy has gained consideration amongst the correct’s younger intelligentsia, he’s but to show to the previous guard that he’s a pure chief.
Behind the scenes, Sarkozy has already been constructing connections with key figures on the French proper, together with outgoing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, signaling his ambition for a future in politics, a number of political operators conversant in his plans advised POLITICO.
He met with Retailleau final month on the inside ministry, throughout which he was handled to a tour of the constructing’s personal flats the place he had lived as a toddler when his father was inside minister, two folks with data of the go to mentioned.
