Guillaume Tabard: "The party's program or the candidate's project?"

It is the question of the chicken and the egg applied to political life.

Should a party, a current, a sensitivity, work on a program before appointing its representative in the presidential election?

Or is it around only one candidate that a rally can take place?

The project or the incarnation?

The Republicans are in this delicate moment where the two questions are on the table, with no obvious answers.

The circumstances and the calendar are generally responsible for deciding.

When Jacques Chirac embarked on the adventure of the RPR, in 1976, or when François Mitterrand took over the PS in 1971, it was already with the Elysee in his sights.

Party program and presidential project - think of the 110 proposals - merged.

The same goes for Nicolas Sarkozy when he was elected president of the UMP in 2004. The party's thematic conventions were worth construction of its 2007 offer. Conversely, a Ségolène Royal or a François Fillon, unscheduled winners

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