Décès de Patrick Buisson, conseiller et défenseur de l'Union des droites

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Conseiller discret de Nicolas Sarkozy, partisan d'Eric Zemmour lors de la dernière élection présidentielle, le défenseur de l'union des partis de droite Patrick Buisson est décédé mardi à l'âge de 74 ans. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Discreet advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy,

00:02 Eric Zemmour's supporter during the last presidential election,

00:05 the Union's right-wing defender Patrick Buisson

00:09 died Tuesday at the age of 74.

00:12 The police intervened at his home in the Sables d'Olonne,

00:15 Vendée, as indicated by the AFP, without further details.

00:20 Patrick Buisson was a man of great culture,

00:22 a talented writer and a mad lover of France.

00:26 His sometimes provocative spirit and his tight feathers

00:29 were not enough for political debates,

00:30 he reacted on "X-Marine Le Pen".

00:33 "He lives, before many, the great dangers that threaten our country",

00:37 commented on his side the Republican boss Eric Ciotti.

00:41 The historian and essayist was in particular the advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy

00:45 when the latter was at the Elysée from 2007 to 2012.

00:49 And many supporters of the former president have accused this promoter

00:52 of the rapprochement between the right and the thesis of the National Front

00:55 of having a major responsibility in the defeat of 2012.

00:59 He helped to decomplex a large part of the right-wing electorate,

01:03 recognized at the time Marine Le Pen.

01:06 Seven years later, the political scientist tried to work

01:09 at a "national union" with the polemicist Eric Lemour,

01:12 who then launched into the race for the Elysée.

01:15 He claimed to be looking for a candidate who would not be from the National Assembly,

01:20 but would pass a government agreement with the National Front.

01:24 A doctor of history, his thesis was on the relations of France-Algeria,

01:28 Mr. Buisson was "the right hemisphere of Sarkozy", as the world had titled him.

01:33 Discourse on national identity, security, immigration,

01:37 suspension of Schengen, referendum to reform unemployment insurance,

01:42 so many hammered findings in Sarkozy meetings attributed to this gray eminence.

01:47 In the addresses of the candidate Sarkozy at Petit, at the 100 grades,

01:51 many also saw a partition signed by this expert,

01:54 shivering with inquiries of opinion.

01:56 One of his objectives was to reconquer the middle-class populized,

02:00 who turned to the National Front.

02:03 This regrouping wanted from the right-wing,

02:05 Mr. Buisson illustrated it by his own journey,

02:07 of French action and the weekly weekly he led,

02:11 to the National Assembly, through the sovereignist Philippe de Villiers.

02:15 Poison of the right.

02:17 "The advisor was the poison of the right,"

02:20 as the socialist Julien Drey said.

02:23 He regretted not going all the way,

02:25 Sarkozy, "I'm not done", he said in 2013 to a journalist.

02:31 Justice has put an end to this ambition.

02:33 Patrick Buisson was convicted in 2014

02:36 for having recorded discussions with Nicolas Sarkozy

02:40 or his wife Carla Bruni, without their consent.

02:43 The following year, he was put on trial in the case of the Elysée polls,

02:47 130 invoices for councils, including 15 polls,

02:51 paid by the Presidency of the Republic without prior offer.

02:56 He was sentenced in January 2022 to two years in prison

02:59 with a fine of over 6 and €150,000 for favoritism,

03:03 abuse of social property and defrauding public funds.

03:06 Tall, slightly chubby, austere physique,

03:10 Patrick Buisson was "a man of intuition",

03:12 according to one of his former probe clients,

03:15 who praised his ability to be interested in iconoclastic things.

03:19 In 2005, he surprised and seduced Nicolas Sarkozy

03:23 by prophesying a massive no to the European constitutional referendum,

03:27 when almost everyone predicted the victory of the "yes".

03:30 At the Elysée, after the victory of 2007,

03:33 the essayist was a regular visitor to the President,

03:36 but without office or function in the organigram.

03:39 The latter gave him the Legion of Honor,

03:41 a ceremony attended by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

03:45 Everyone then sought his advice, his enlightenment,

03:48 and he was engorged in private,

03:50 in his office of the History channel he ran,

03:52 invaded by books.

03:54 In a very surprising 2013 Tribune,

03:57 his own son, Georges Buisson,

04:00 drew a half-tinted portrait of his father,

04:02 who was a master of the art of unravelling the hidden springs of opinion.

04:06 The text was completed with an enigmatic formula,

04:09 the farmer also threw his seeds into the pine bushes.

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