Republicans in name aussi
Nicolas Sarkozy is back, and wants to redub his party à l’américaine
NEW parties are constantly sprouting up in Europe’s fertile political landscape. It is more unusual to find established parties taking on new names. Yet this is what Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, plans to do at a rally in Paris this weekend. As part of his bid to run again for the presidency in 2017, the irrepressible leader of the centre-right UMP is rebranding the party Les Républicains (The Republicans).
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Republicans in name aussi”
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