“Everyone must be in their role.”

An end of the offensive campaign. While the members of the Republicans are preparing to vote this weekend for their president, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez held their last great meeting.

For the deputy of the Republican right, his meeting was held in Jonage in Auverne-Rhône-Alpes, the region that presided from 2016 to 2024. And his last speech turned out to be critical of his opponent, the Minister of the Interior.

“From the moment he agrees to integrate a team, well, he does not criticize the President of the Republic because he agreed to sit in the Council of Ministers every week,” he said before his support.

“Bruno said he wanted to be an Interior Minister and that it was his priority. It is very good and can be very useful, but not accumulated with the president of the Republicans. Otherwise, the word of the Republicans cannot press François Bayrou so that things move in the areas where we expect,” said Laurent Wauquiez.

“Who can believe today, with the explosion of insecurity and immigration, that one can be Minister of the Interior and combine with something else? It is not how 20 years ago, as 30 years ago, everything has changed (…) Who can believe that the Interior Minister has the free mind to take care of something more than the gigantic task that must be carried out?”

A “duo” proposed in retailleau in case of a victory

Laurent Wauquiez believes that “everyone must be in their role and mission”, while criticizing the recent facts of insecurity in recent weeks, while Bruno Retailleau is a tenant of Beauvau.

“We are talking about France, we are not talking about Bolivia. We are not talking about Mexico, we are talking about France. In Saint-Oue, you have a school that was next to an agreement agreement, what are we closing? But 20 years ago when Nicolas Sarkozy was an interior minister, he had been able to close a school to let live a point of agreement,” he denounced.

“We shoot prisons with Kalashnikov Blows. We kidnap people on the street as if we were in Bogotá and crush firefighters in Évian,” he continues.

Who claims to have “done everything to avoid” this campaign against Bruno Retilleau offers a “duo”: “When I win the elections, I will offer Bruno Retailleau to be vice president.”

Neither criticism nor the “small sentence” for Minister-Candidat

For the Interior Minister, an appointment was made in Nîmes. Bruno Retailleau, in an interview with BFMTV at the departure of his meeting, “does not know what will happen on Sunday” but “he liked to” do this campaign.

“I have never expressed the slightest prayer for the most critical gifted until tonight, that is, until the last meeting,” said the candidate, “I found militants who were finding hope in his political family, in the values ​​of the right.”

“What I did with the members, tomorrow, I want to do it with the voters,” he concludes with BFMTV.

The result of the internal election of the presidency of LR, which can vote about 120,000 members, will be proclaimed this Sunday night.