PARIS (Reuters) - A former top aide to Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday he would run against him in the conservative party's primaries for the 2017 presidential election, further weakening Sarkozy's own bid.
Henri Guaino, who wrote many of Sarkozy's key speeches when he was president in 2007-2012 and was one of his closest advisers, backs a statist economic policy that is absent from the increasingly large field of candidates for Les Republicains (LR) party's November primaries.
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