Former french president, Nicolas Sarkozy has announced he's returning to politics and running for the leadership of the centre-right Union pour un mouvement populaire (Union for a popular movement, UMP).
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| Nicolas Sarkozy (screenshot from Europe 1/TF1 interview, July 2014 |
In what has to be one of the worst kept secrets after months - no, make that years - of conjecture, Sarkozy took to social media - Facebook, what else - to deliver his rallying call.
"I am a candidate for the presidency of my political family," he wrote.
"I propose turning the party upside down to create within three months the conditions for a vast new movement that will address itself to all French people regardless of their political persuasion."
Ah. that familiar call of unity and appealing to the broadest possible electoral base.
Still, love him or hate him, French politics is about to get a whole lot more interesting and the chances are this is just the first step in his campaign to run in the French presidential election in 2017.
But wait.
Remember back during the 2012 election campaign when asked by Jean-Jacques Bourdin on BFM TV whether he would continue in politics should he lose?
Sarkozy categorically said "No" and that he would "find something else to do.
Ah well. How does that famous quote (often attributed to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Napoleon's - how appropriate - chief diplomatic aide) go?
"Only fools never change their mind".
Or in political speak - don't believe a word I'm saying right now because sometime in the future I'll do and/or say the opposite.
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