Like the word "rope" on the deck of a boat, the word "primary" is a cursed word, proscribed on the right when we want to talk about the presidential election. However, to straighten his head, he will have to find a way to designate his head for 2022, whatever word is chosen.
Those who do not want to hear about "primary" invoke the trauma of 2017. The two major government parties, LR and the PS, organized one; both were eliminated in the first round. QED. Except that it was the business of jobs and costumes that brought down François Fillon. A machine for exacerbating divisions and making resentments, the primary? Voire.
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What is certain is that the explosion of the partisan structure on the right further complicates the establishment of an indisputable mode of selection; a "tiebreaker procedure" , as Gérard Larcher puts it. Should we rely on the choice of activists alone? With some 60,000 members today alone, Les Républicains
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