Almost bonds? A week before the vote of the militants, Les Republicins to choose their new president, the entrance to the former chief of Christian Jacob correct and the former Interior Minister of Brice Hortefeux to support Laurent Wauquiez gives a smile to his relatives.
“This is very good news. He shows that those who know him trust him and tell themselves that he is the right person for the party,” says one of his relatives Nicolas Daragon, mayor of Valencia and former … Delegate Minister of Bruno Retailleau.
Roller stomach on the ground
The president of the deputies of LR needs to force his luck. Few correct figures well identified by activists to support it, where the Interior Minister can boast a thick support list, of the Senate President Gérard Larcher In Number 1 of Hauts-De-France Xavier Bertrand by the way Cannes Mayor David Lisnard or the former prime minister François Fillon…
“And what? We, at least, are backed by people who have not changed the opinions 30 times and who have not become macronistas,” Tances a deputy close to Laurent Wauquiez who remembers that “they are not the Parisian experts who vote but the militants.”
What to promote the former president of the Auverne-Rhône-Alpes region so as not to stop in the lack of support of the personnel of the Movement and Rasting The Ground.
It should be said that with 130 meetings on the clock in almost all departments, often at a rate of two days a day, Laurent Wauquiez has not saved its efforts. The opportunity also for him to execute his arguments against Bruno Retailleau.
“With Bruno, there is no LR candidate in 2027”
In addition to the idea that the accumulation of publications between the interior and the presidency of LR would be almost impossible due to the lack of time and a possible lack of independence to say no to François Bayrou in case of disagreement, Laurent Wauquiez considers that he had made a card in recent times by evoking Edouard Philippe.
In his viewfinder: the possibility that Bruno Retailleau, once chosen for the head of the right, renounces the presidential elections for the benefit of Emmanuel Macron’s eximate.
“When at meetings, it is said that with Bruno, there will be no LR candidate in 2027, I swear that people think,” explains the mayor of Valencia Nicolas Darage.
To defend himself, Bruno Retailleau explains that he certainly has “esteem” for Édouard Philippe, but that “believes in the left-right division”, ensuring that he wanted to “rebuild the right.”
“It is pure misinformation, we have never mentioned its withdrawal in case of a presidential candidacy with anyone,” he is upset by Senator LR Marc-Philippe Daubresse, one of the relatives of the Interior Minister.
“Not safe from a surprise”
Far from counting only on the words heard at meetings, which officially stop this Sunday, Laurent Wauquiez’s team intends to multiply the blows all week with members and continue organizing public meetings with elected officials.
Enough to win? Half word, some recognize that they don’t really believe it. “We are not immune to a surprise, I am sure, but there, in paper, it does not happen,” he regrets one of his lieutenants.
But a precedent makes him want to believe it: the competition between Jean-François Copé and François Fillon to become president of the UMP, the old name of the LR.
The ghost of the Copé-Fillon war
While the former cousins minister he imagined largely winner, like most of his camp, he had been trying to see that Jean-François Copé, who had opted much more to militants than elected officials, claimed victory.
“We will not go in a war as there was with the two who wanted to win, but what is certain is that Fillon was chosen in an armchair like Retilleau and that is not what happened,” observes a deputy from the right.
With the backdrop of the problem after the other in the case of the defeat of Laurent Wauquiez. Will you accept a position to the right of Bruno Retilleau in the movement if it is offered? Will you be tempted to establish your own stable to prepare for presidential elections?
“I can’t wait for us to continue,” admits the support of the Interior Minister. More than a week …
Source: BFM TV
