"France has never been so far on the right, and we are far from power."
A paradox, for Damien Abad, who was the guest of the “Talk Le Figaro” on Friday.
“Very clearly, we are missing an incarnation.
But it is essential, ”
recognizes the president of the LR deputies.
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Time flies, and some are stamping their feet in the LR ranks.
With less than two years of the presidential election, the party must find its champion.
If LR is suspended from an official decision by François Baroin, the deputy for Ain is cautious.
He considers
"as a strong political signal, testifying to his attachment and loyalty to his political family",
the latter's presence at the Port-Marly summer universities.
However, Abad delays and emphasizes the personal dimension of such a decision.
"Let's keep our cool and our serenity",
assures the elected before insisting that there is not yet any danger in the remainder, because, he says:
"Let us never forget that Emmanuel Macron was a candidate very late in the presidential election. ”
Supporter of appeasement in his family, he recalls that in 2017 "the primary irrigated divisions, clans, it was then necessary to heal the wounds"
Should we maintain the principle at LR of a primary?
"The primary as it existed will not be able to stand,"
says Abad, for both economic and political reasons.
Supporter of appeasement in his family, he recalls that in 2017
"the primary irrigated divisions, clans, it was then necessary to heal the wounds".
Whatever the alternative to the primary, the successful candidate should face Xavier Bertrand, the latter having already announced his candidacy.
“This is precisely what we must avoid”,
loose the group president, considering that
“the right cannot ignore the candidacy of Xavier Bertrand”.
Moreover, he is full of praise for the president of the Hauts-de-France region:
"Xavier Bertrand has qualities, assets, he recalled his attachment to the right, he is now fighting politics. led by the government and it has a track record in the region. "
No doubt, LR will according to him have to reckon with the former Minister of Labor, however excluding a fratricidal match in the first round.
"It is totally impossible and unacceptable"
that there are two right-wing candidates, he says.
As group president, he adds,
"I am here to help the right (...) win, and the condition is that there is only one candidate."
Christian Estrosi's "analytical error"
Fifteen months before the presidential election, the deputy also wants to keep his sanity.
He emphasizes that the issue for the French is above all social plans, employment, youth unemployment, etc.
He would not want LR
"to be the victim of a trial in disconnection by projecting the image of a navelist right".
As for Christian Estrosi's proposals on an agreement with the macronists for 2022, Abad is clear:
“There is an analytical error.
(…) The great danger is to leave an empty political space on the right in favor of Marine Le Pen. ”
He adds:
"We do not share the same values, because macronism comes from a left majority."
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For him, indeed, if the government attacks the sovereign subjects dear to the Republicans,
“it can be difficult at the start”.
But he is not worried: the executive
"begins with a right-wing discourse and ends with a left-wing reality".
Abad believes that the recent contradictory declarations of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of the Interior, against a background of insecurity, have reached their climax:
"It is the pledge of inaction and immobility"
of macronism, cowardly he.