Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed that he “had had no choice” but to return to politics, stating that he had never seen such “despair” in France. In a 45-minute primetime television interview on TV station France 2, Sarkozy outlined his bid to lead the opposition UMP party and launched a scathing attack on Socialist President François Hollande. he said: “I don’t want my country to be condemned to the humiliating state of affairs that we have today or the perspective of total isolation” that he predicts will happen if France’s far-right National Front party continues its rise.
He is his own prosecutor.
Nicolas Sarkozy on current France President Francois Hollande
He added: “I’ve never seen such anger or such a lack of perspective in France. Staying on the sidelines as a spectator would be to abandon my country. Not only do I want (to come back), but I had no choice.” The former president described France as “one of the rare countries where there is a lack of hope. France is collapsing, people don’t believe in politics anymore, my political party (the opposition UMP) is divided like never before — so should I simply stay at home?”
Hollande has left a long list of lies behind him.
Nicolas Sarkozy