Republicans must designate their partial legislative candidate on Monday, July 28, July 28 in the Second District of Paris. Two heavyweights are in the ranks: Michel Barnier, with the support of Bruno Retailleau and Rachida Dati, who threatens to appear against him.
LR’s National Investigation Commission (CNI) meets at 5 PM Bluff or a true candidacy, in any case it is well “planned” that the bubbling minister is heard, he tells AFP his entourage.
Michel Barnier, ephemeral prime minister, was a candidate on July 15, a few days after the decision of the Constitutional Council to declare that Jean Laussucq macronist is not eligible.
Rachida Dati, more than ever interested in the City of Paris, obviously did not appreciate the way to do and maintain from the vagueness around her candidacy for this same legislative.
A meeting with Retailleau
In an attempt to avoid a new fratricidal war whose party is usual, a meeting “on Sunday night” was held between the two interested parties around Bruno Retailleau, according to the entourage of the latter.
“The two ambitions, the Paris City Council for Rachida Dati and the partial legislative of Michel Barnier, are compatible,” said Minister Annie Genevard, president of the National Commission (CNI) of the party, near the head of LR. “The president of the party is working to appease things.”
A priori, a surprise is unlikely on the side of the CNI. The president of the Republicans has already supported the Savoyard. And the CNI, whose composition was reworking just a month ago, is favorable for the Interior Minister.
But, “you have to decide the issue as soon as possible, so as not to expose yourself to psychedramas and go to the campaign,” he warned of Parisian Jean-François Copé, the former UMP chief (before LR) on Saturday, in an open conflict with François Fillon.
“A matter of balance”
Excluded from Republicans in 2024 after being posed by Gabriel Attal to enter his government as Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati has taken over his card in LR. During the internal campaign to the presidency of the party, his entourage argued Laurent Wauquiez against the Minister of the Interior.
Has your anger fallen against Michel Barnier? During a public meeting, he recently accused him of being “instrumentalized by some who want the division.”
These tensions arise at eight months of municipal elections. The relatives of Rachida Dati, returned last week to judge by corruption and influence traffic, say that Michel Barnier is afraid also has ambitions for the City Council if it could not appear, which the interested party denied.
At this stage, the Republicans did not support the Minister of the City of Paris.
“It is no longer just a matter of personality but of balance,” he only comments on Bruno Retailleau.
The surprise of the left?
However, the shock of the two tenors is not necessarily inevitable. “We can get out of the top of this story. Michel Barnier should clearly say that he supports Rachida Dati” for the City Council, says Mayor LR of the sixth Jean-Pierre Lecoq district, near the minister.
On the side of the former Tenant of Matignon, we beg that “a dialogue continues”, ensuring that it is “there is a path.”
But the Savoyard strategy, which nourishes presidential ambitions, arouses questions within the Republicans. A party manager suspects him “to run for the presidency of the group of deputies”, currently occupied by Laurent Wauquiez.
For Corpus everything, the other members of the government coalition barely appreciated their way of doing things, such as Gabriel Attal, who “regretted” that LR did not coordinate with the Renaissance, while the outgoing deputy sat in the ranks of the presidential party.
These divisions could delight left. He had created the surprise last year by getting into the second round in this constituency, which for a long time is considered “unmissable” on the right. Socialists must choose their candidate in the next few days.
As for Thierry Mariani, former Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, passed in the national rally, has already announced his candidacy in this constituency that covers a large part of the exclusive Parisian districts of 5th, 6th and 7th and 7th and that presents as “the place to be”.
Source: BFM TV
