Overview
- In excerpts from his new prison diary, Nicolas Sarkozy says Marine Le Pen called him in jail and he vowed to publicly urge dropping the anti‑RN cordon to pursue a “Union of the Right.”
- The revelation aligns with a growing opening inside Les Républicains, as Eric Ciotti, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez signal support for collaboration or joint candidate selection with RN.
- Marine Le Pen has a conviction for embezzlement that stripped her passive voting rights, leaving her potential 2026 bid uncertain.
- Sarkozy served 20 days in Paris’s La Santé prison after a conviction linked to alleged 2007 Gaddafi funding and was conditionally released when he turned 70.
- He also writes that he refused a phone offer from President Emmanuel Macron for transfer to better conditions and now describes a break in their relationship.