{"id":8985,"date":"2025-12-14T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/sarkozys-astonishing-about-face-on-the-far-right\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:24:28","slug":"sarkozys-astonishing-about-face-on-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/sarkozys-astonishing-about-face-on-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy&#8217;s astonishing about-face on the far right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \"><span class=\"article__inner\">B<\/span>efore 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from President Jacques Chirac, whose succession he was seeking, under the slogan &#8220;La Rupture&#8221; (&#8220;The Break&#8221;). Nearly 20 years later, a different, deeper and more serious break with his former mentor is at stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">At the Elys\u00e9e, Chirac had made a point of maintaining a strict separation between the right and the far right. In 2002, he even refused to debate Jean-Marie Le Pen, who had reached the second round of the presidential election, to avoid legitimizing far-right ideas: &#8220;In the face of intolerance and hatred,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2025\/12\/09\/sarkozy-suggests-alliance-with-far-right-is-inevitable_6748307_23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from President Jacques Chirac, whose succession he was seeking, under the slogan &#8220;La Rupture&#8221; (&#8220;The Break&#8221;).&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}