Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls on Facebook for donations for his ailing UMP. The Conservative party has been canceled, the state election campaign using eleven million euros.

The conservative UMP threatens the financial collapse. To avert this has called on his followers to donate former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

“I beg you to do your part as well I’ll do it,” Sarkozy said on Friday on his Facebook page – and linked to a set up by his UMP party donations page. It is a matter of guaranteeing the “free democratic expression” in France.

On Thursday, the Constitutional Council in Paris decided that the party receives no government reimbursement for Sarkozy’s election campaign of 2012. According to calculations by the auditor, the then head of state had spent on the campaign trail with the Socialist François Hollande 466 118 euros too much. He thus surpassed the permissible limit of 2.1 percent. For violating the Conservatives go now about eleven million euros lost.

He thus surpassed the permissible limit of 2.1 percent. For violating the Conservatives go now about eleven million euros lost.

“One-operation in the history of the Fifth Republic”

Since Thursday night the Conservative Party supporters can donate money online. Party leader Jean-Francois Cope had the fundraiser first want to start next Monday. According to party entries but then reported many potential donors “by email and phone,” why the action was brought forward. UMP treasurer Catherine Vautrin calculated that every party member must donate just 35 Euros to close the gaping eleven-million-euro gap.

Sarkozy appeared angry about the punishment of a party. The former head of state announced yet on Thursday night in protest against the decision on his immediate withdrawal from the Constitutional Council. He wants to win back his resignation with the “freedom of speech,” Sarkozy said. As an ex-president, he actually had a lifetime right to a seat on the committee.

The cancellation of election assistance was “unique event in the history of the Fifth Republic,” Sarkozy wrote on Facebook. So his party and would “the formation of a necessary alternative to socialism” at risk.

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