the situation that has developed with the involvement of the conservative candidate for the presidency Francois Fillon in scandal on αÏγομισθίας of his wife, according to a source close to the Republican.
“Yes. They had a long debate,” the source said today, Reuters, and refused to give more details.
At the same time, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the head of the center-right French party UDI, ally, Republican, warned today by the radio station Europe 1 that the continuation of the support of Fillon, for the office of the presidency will lead to a “sure failure” and called Alain Juppe to intervene.
“In the Olympics when the winner of the gold medal blocked, then assumes the holder of the silver medal,” said Lagarde.
On the same wavelength, moving and other senior members of the conservatives, which will propose an alternate candidate in the place of Francois Fillon, as senior member of the party “The Republicans” suggesting that the only option is Alain Juppe.
“In the next few hours we will propose an initiative,” said Christian ΕστÏοζί, a close ally of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, the television network BFM TV, adding that this will be done tomorrow morning.
“We don’t have the time to discuss who has the greater talent. I don’t think that none of them gasp in our political movement, who have talent, can take the role to unite us”.
The ΕστÏοζί said that the initiative will have the same lead and other heavy names in the party including Xavier Bertrand and Valerie ΠεκÏÎÏ‚.
“The easiest thing, obviously, is the person who came second in the primaries, and that is simply Alain Juppe,” said he.
Face-to-face Sarkozy – Juppe for the case of Fillon
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