Sarkozy calls for new vote

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 27 November 2012 | 11.27

Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy called for a vote to resolve the leadership battle in the UMP. Source: AAP

EX-PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a fresh vote to resolve the bitter leadership battle that has left France's main right-wing opposition party, the UMP, on the verge of collapse, party officials say.

The UMP, the political heir to the party founded by Charles de Gaulle after World War II, is in turmoil after accusations of vote-rigging tarnished a leadership vote pitting former prime minister Francois Fillon against hardline rival Jean-Francois Cope.

At a peacemaking lunch Monday with Fillon, Sarkozy said holding a new vote would "avoid an escalation of the conflict", a party source told AFP - an account confirmed by both Fillon and Cope loyalists in the party.

Still reeling from its loss of the presidency and parliament this year, the UMP is facing the spectre of an unprecedented split as both rivals have refused to back down in the increasingly angry dispute.

The ridicule foisted on the party over the leadership debacle has done serious damage to its image, benefiting Socialist President Francois Hollande as he struggles with a flat economy and dropping popularity.

Some UMP deputies were already raising the prospect on Monday of breaking away from the party's parliamentary faction - a move that would deprive it of crucial public funding.

Sarkozy flew in early Monday from a conference in Shanghai for his lunch with Fillon, which lasted more than hour in Sarkozy's office in central Paris.

A party heavyweight who earlier failed in a mediation bid had urged Sarkozy - still enormously popular with the UMP rank-and-file despite his loss to Hollande in May's presidential vote - to intervene.

"Clearly (Sarkozy) is the only one today to have enough authority to propose a way out," former foreign minister Alain Juppe told RTL radio.

Fillon, 58, and Cope, 48, have traded accusations of fraud and ballot-rigging since last Sunday's election for a party president ended with Cope ahead.

Speaking at UMP headquarters, Cope called on the party to choose "forgiveness over division" and "the future over bitterness".

He said the party needed Fillon and urged him to join a proposed team for reconciliation.


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