” Minister ! » On April 15, at Bourbon, a chic Parisian café a stone's throw from the National Assembly, François-Xavier Bellamy meets, by chance, Brice Hortefeux. The two men, who sit together in the European Parliament, salute each other. The former Minister of the Interior slips to the head of the list of the Republicans (LR), visibly unaware, that he grants an interview the next day to the Parisian. A free electron, the Sarkozyst is not the type to ask permission to take action.
The next morning, as planned, the interview appears on the ninth page of the daily. Hortefeux calls for “ensure the balance between renewal and experience” in the composition of the LR list for the Europeans. If he swears to Marianne that “his electoral future has absolutely no importance”for the Republican staff, the message is clear: the MEP wants to be reappointed to an eligible position. “I didn't read the interview but I read the title, tackles a campaign executive. Of course he wants to stay. »
