"A little calm!"
released Eric Woerth on the set of "Talk-Le Figaro" Tuesday, a bit annoyed by the conjectures around a candidacy at LR for the presidential election.
The ambitions of François Baroin have, it is true, not badly captured the general attention last weekend.
For the moment, the deputy for Oise asks for appeasement on the subject, and at a time when declarations of intention or non-intention are going well, he believes that
"we must not confuse the times and the times.
There is a time for everything".
Preferring at this stage that his party concentrate on the substance, he insists that first of all
"the Republicans' project must be identifiable, therefore different from that of the others".
Once this process of identifying ideas has started, continues the former minister, comes the process of identifying the candidate.
Can there still be a natural candidate at LR as were Jacques Chirac or Nicolas Sarkozy?
At first
"there are those who want to go there, who say it with more or less force, it's a very personal feeling,"
says Eric Woerth.
If candidates nominate themselves, polls will emerge someone.
"And that's good, in this case we will have a nominated candidate since he will be more powerful than the others."
Otherwise, he continues, it will require a method
"which is called primary, tiebreaker or designation process,"
he defines.
Because, if the primary term seems to have become embarrassing for LR,
"it is because it has become synonymous with our failure in the 2017 presidential election and the failure of François Fillon,"
assumes the former minister.
As such, the Chiraquian underlines the confusion that is made:
"It is obviously the business that made us fail in 2017."
For him, no doubt, it will really be necessary
"to learn the lessons of 2017"
insisting on the need for
"a very precise timetable".
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Tuesday morning, LR president Christian Jacob gathered a strategic council to reach, among other things, consensus on 2022. Certainly, there will be an LR candidate, confirms Eric Woerth.
If no one declares himself, there will be a tie-breaker in April 2021 and,
“obviously, it must be open”.
In other words, Valérie Pécresse or Xavier Bertrand, who left LR will be able to play their score.
Until then, the Republicans will have time to work
"quietly",
to let the regional and departmental elections pass, but above all to take the pulse and take into account the economic and social climate to achieve a solid alternation project.
Because, above all, the chairman of the finance committee in the Assembly does not forget that
"there is 9% unemployment, deficits in all directions, businesses that close and insecurity in the country ".
"I have high hopes, the political space is the one we create for
ourselves,
"
concludes Eric Woerth, convinced that the French want a right-wing candidate, who is not Emmanuel Macron.
