LIVE – The Republicans: members elect the president of the party

At 2:00 p.m., the participation of LR militants in the party congress already amounted to 60%. However, it is impossible to draw a conclusion about the outcome of this election.

In its current edition, the JDD tells how he got two cats to vote in the LR congress.

According to information from the weekly, the authority in charge of guaranteeing the regularity of voting only verifies the identity of members if the same “personal data” is used “four times or more.” Consequently, “so you have the right to three votes per person,” explains a source from the JDDaccording to which “there are false adherents everywhere”.

The situation created a slight embarrassment for LR. “We will not comment before the poll closes,” BFMTV said on the party leadership’s side. A connoisseur of how voting works is severe with the article in the JDD.

“It is a bully method, to discredit the ballot,” he said.

A relative of one of the three candidates did not seem surprised. He tells BFMTV that “as long as we don’t ask for an ID card to become a member, we are exposed to a proliferation of fake cards and a form of patronage.”

In his opinion, “the phenomenon of false cards is very marginal”, but that “poses an image problem”, he admits.

Especially since last February, Release He had revealed that a dog, Douglas, had been able to join LR, before the party congress, destined to designate its 2022 presidential candidate. Although his vote had not been taken into account in a fine.

Guest of the LCI-Le Figaro-RTL Grand Jury, Gérard Larcher, on the other hand, rejects any idea of ​​alliance with the majority. According to Senate President LR, this would mean that his party would “disappear.”

“To ally is to dissolve. It is to disappear. It is to stop having an identity,” she said.

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The mayor (LR) of La Baule Franck Louvrier advocates that his party establish a “government contract” with Emmanuel Macron to prevent any reform from being “stopped in the country”, in an interview with JDD.

“Either we agree to conclude a government contract in transparency in front of our voters, or Emmanuel Macron will be sentenced to immobility,” said Franck Louvrier.

With a simple relative majority for the government in the Assembly, and without the possibility of resorting massively to the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to get the texts approved, “all reform would then be paralyzed in the country.”

“I don’t think that’s what the French expect of us,” insists this close friend of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who argues that “alliances are already being forged daily in Parliament with the presidential majority.”

Éric Ciotti, Bruno Retailleau and Aurélien Pradié are the three candidates for this congress.

The first is the favorite of this internal election, the second is seen as the main challenger and the third acts as an outsider.

BFMTV.com summarizes here the profile and the differences of these three candidates

Hello everyone, welcome to this political live dedicated to the LR congress, destined to elect the president of the party.