These days, we don't get the chance to smile too often. Also, thank you to the UMP for these 3 minutes of happiness. In addition, the journalist from Le Point is charming, which does not spoil anything; )))
BFM TV: This morning, you want to talk to us aboutUMP. Last night a meeting was held to define the conditions for setting up the primary for the 2017 presidential election. However, no agreement was reached. At the UMP, we are not out of the mess...
Anna Cabana: You can tell! The conditions for setting up a primary for the 2017 presidential election is the crucial subject among all. A literally nuclear subject. A subject which is negotiated within a body born of the agreement signed in December between Jean-Francois Cope et François Fillon, a body called "commission de revision des statutes", CRS. We can say everything about the UMP, but we can't take one thing away from them: they have the meaning of the formula, or rather of the acronym. The CRS cannot be invented. Well, the CRS has everyone in their sights. The partisans of the two camps, that of Fillon and that of Copé, mutually suspect each other and that leads to a form of paralysis. Every Monday, it nitpicks, it quibbles. Last night, when it was theoretically the last meeting of the CRS, it came up against, hold on tight, on the composition of the political office and the high authority responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the primaries. I don't care, but it's essential...
Essential ? It is the high authority that is essential?
Do you remember the Cocoe, the commission for the control of electoral operations which was supposed to ensure the smooth running of the elections last November and which was the laughing stock of all of France for weeks? Well, high authority is the equivalent of Cocoe in the primaries process. Except that, precisely, the CRS has the mission to engrave in stone the rules which will allow this high authority not to offer a spectacle as grotesque as the Cocoe. Another mission of the CRS: to decide on the "open" character of the future primary, which has just been demanded in chorus by three former Prime Ministers, Édouard Balladur, Alain Juppé and... François Fillon. A nice blow for Fillon, because Copé, who cannot seem to be hostile to it, knows that in the event of really open primaries his chances are dramatically reduced. Last night, the meeting, which was long and tiring according to one participant, ended in a political dismissal...
What's going to happen ? I thought this was the last meeting...
It should have been the last. But at the UMP, these days, we tend to prolong the pleasure. The members of the commission have planned to meet again on Wednesday afternoon, then again in mid-May. In addition to the more or less "open" primaries, they must examine another thorny question, that of knowing whether to submit to a militant referendum the principle - recorded this winter during the Fillon / Copé agreement - of a new election in September of the president of the party, the famous "revote". Fillon says he is "in the state of mind to be a candidate" so that Copé cannot say anything else, Copé therefore does not say anything else, but the truth is that neither the other doesn't want a new election in September. It's gonna be fun to see how they get out of there...
By Anna Cabana
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