“I’ve always opted for him.” François Fillon participated in multiple praise for Bruno Retailleau this Wednesday, May 21 in an interview with Le Figaro magazine, returning to the rise of this faithful, which is in full light in two years from the presidential elections.
Regarding his entry to the Government, in September 2024, in a team composed of LR and the presidential camp, the former Nicolas Sarkozy prime minister explains: “He was very skeptical. But it was necessary at all costs to avoid a Government of Lefre. I also think it was the opportunity that allowed him to show that it was different.”
Everything without refusing himself, according to François Fillon, who defends this choice: “Bruno is constant in his fundamental convictions, but he is not an ideologist. He is realistic and is pragmatic.”
“A authentic man”
All except trivial. In fact, the freedom of expression and action of the Minister of Interior was found in the heart of the attacks of Laurent Wauquiez during the elections for the presidency of LR, widely won by Bruno Retailleau on Sunday.
“The voters did not choose a line. They chose an authentic man. And who is this man? He is anti-Macro. He is anchored to the right, an assertive and allergic Catholic to ‘At the same time.’ I think no one can affirm that Brunoinlaau,” insists on François Fillon.
Way to install the sell in the position of a man of rupture with macronism, line that Laurent Wauquiez sought to embody during the campaign. And to project around 2027, even if the interested part was recently modified on this topic.
To really mark their distances, the former leader of the LR senators could end up leaving the government. “It will inevitably go at some point,” he will recently bet on a ministerial collaborator with BFMTV.
François Fillon prepares the field, listing many subjects that could take the head of the Beauvau place to hit the door, such as “the end of the law of life, the debate on the budget, the increase in taxes, electoral reform, pensions and the debate on the unrealistic and dangerous exchange of nuclear.”
LR activists “said that, under current conditions, their participation in the government was useful. But they did not request the idea of a sustainable electoral alliance,” he judges.
“It was exemplary loyalty”
Beyond the next struggles for the Elysée, François Fillon remembers the relationship, more than twenty years, which he maintains with Bruno Retilleau. Evoking the 2017 presidential campaign, marked in the final stretch by the matter of the fictitious works of his wife Pénélope Fillon, Le Manceau trusts:
“It was exemplary loyalty when so many others were moving. The day before the trocadero meeting (March 5, 2017), He had decided to stop everything. Bruno (then he was the coordinator of his campaign, Editor’s note) was one of the few to try to deter. “
Finally preceded by Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen when for a long time he served as a favorite, François Fillon had a plan in mind for his friend: “He was one of the two or three in which he thought for Matignon,” progresses, also evoked the possibility of the “Interior Ministry.”
For Beauvau, it is already done. And Bruno Retilleau surely dreams of going higher.
Source: BFM TV
