Bruno Retailleau was a candidate to take the lead of the LR party in the fall of 2022. He considers that when the Republicans constituted "a large party, very numerous, we could have a large cathedral with chapels, on our right flank, our left flank, in the center and elsewhere" The leader of the senators of the right even considers that the right "must be all the more coherent as it is weak" "I think that at some point, this question (to dismiss some LR deputies) will arise," he added.