Juppe called Sarkozy to go beyond the left-right divide

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PARIS (Reuters) - Alain Juppe called on Sunday in Le Journal du Dimanche to rise above the left-right divides and warns against the risk Nicolas Sarkozy to pursue a policy inspired by the ideas of the National Front to try too hard to to be elected by his constituents.

The issue of participation in the primary of the right and center sharpens the rivalry between the two favorites of the poll, the former head of state accusing her main rival of preparing a "soft alternation" for invited " hollandisme disappointed "and centrists to vote in November.

"In seeking to be elected with the votes of the left, we must prepare to give a policy that will give pledges to the left to make little arrangements," again insisted Saturday Nicolas Sarkozy.

"When we seek to be elected by the votes of the National Front, we may conduct a policy inspired by the National Front theses," retorted Alain Juppé in the JDD.

"This kind of argument is very Gaullist politician I am. I France, this is not right, not the left, it's all French If, in 2017, it is not. able to rise a little above these divisions, it will not happen to straighten this country, "he added.

A "TEN GOOD" FIRST potential ministers

The mayor of Bordeaux, in the polls for the primary to the right, repeat it intends decline precisely his project within 100 days before the presidential election, with the publication of five or six orders that would implement s' elected. In saying so "the whole truth", it believes it can avoid "bottlenecks".

Asked about potential prime minister, Alain Juppé refuses to name. "I choose based on two criteria: competence and loyalty," is he merely states.

He added that "for Matignon, there is a very wide range of possible candidates." Among the "dozen" of "first potential ministers," he recalls, the only one he mentions is Bruno Le Maire, also candidate to primary the right.

Aside however the name of the former Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, who left the government of Manuel Valls to concentrate on his movement "in March!" in view of the presidential election in 2017.

"I said that my criteria for my choice for prime minister would be the competence and loyalty. His skill, he has not demonstrated yet (...) As for loyalty, the French have seen that it was not his first quality ", he said.

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