The former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy judges that the two parties engaged in a confrontation of appearance from which they both emerge as winners.
For three months, the executive has been firmly defending its pension reform, just promulgated by the President of the Republic four days ago. Opposite, the unions advocate unity to push the presidential camp to abandon its text. They have organized numerous large-scale mobilizations and will meet again on May 1, for a day that they hope will be historic.
But this confrontation would not be one, according to Patrick Buisson.
“There is an objective complicity between the power and the inter-union”, judges the right-wing essayist, who has just published a book, entitled décadanse.
“Roleplay”
For him, “everyone is a win-win in a role-playing game that we know by heart”. The former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy advances a “common objective”:
“Bury the movement of yellow vests”, an “uncontrollable protest which gave so many sweats to both the executive and the unions”, according to him, “since it came out of the ordinary canons of social demand”.
Patrick Buisson continues his analysis, estimating that in this sequence, unions and executive “have succeeded perfectly one and the other”. The first “regained luster”, he judges, when the second “was able to play firmness, attract to him the party of order (Les Républicains, editor’s note)”.
For those who sometimes provide advice to Éric Zemmour, there are many examples of “this role-playing game”. He returns to the first employment contract (CPE), defended by the government of Dominique de Villepin in 2006, under Jacques Chirac, then finally abandoned in the face of the social movement. Nicolas Sarkozy was then Minister of the Interior.
“This is the objective of all political power”
At the time, it was a question of “taking advantage of social unrest”, according to Patrick Buisson. “At the time of the demonstrations, Nicolas Sarkozy said ‘this is an opportunity, we are going to produce the image'”, he reports. It is then, according to him, to “create breaches in the demonstrations so that the thugs, the looters can for a short time attack (…) street furniture, without the police intervening ” .
Objective of the maneuver: “to discredit the movement”. Despite the seriousness of these statements, Patrick Buisson goes further, believing that “it is the objective of all police and all political power”.
In 2014, he was ordered to pay 10,000 euros to Nicolas Sarkozy, after having registered the former President of the Republic without his knowledge. Before releasing a test, The People’s Causein 2016, in which he already accused the former boss of Place Bauveau of having allowed riots to take place during the demonstrations against the CPE.
