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by mercurial 4080 days ago
> Since he is still considered important in their party

He is, in fact, the current head of the main conservative party, and will no doubt be presidential candidate in 2017.

> I suppose many had the same dilemma and didn't come.

I suspect the dilemma was more about avoiding to support the current majority too openly. As you said, nobody will mistake the UMP for a bastion of privacy and individual freedoms.