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Presidential: LR wants to challenge the head of state but is still looking for his candidate

2021-03-22T19:37:31.497Z


There are dissensions within the party over the strategy to follow to nominate a candidate for the 2022 election.


On the right, spirits are heating up.

While Nicolas Sarkozy invited to lunch, a week ago, his friends Christian Jacob and François Baroin before the funeral of Olivier Dassault, some LR elected officials were concerned to read

"a Sarkozy-Baroin-Jacob plot"

before the presidential.

They fear that the former president

"will make a deal to help Emmanuel Macron in his re-election by imposing in exchange a prime minister, in this case François Baroin"

with the support of the LR leadership.

A fear already expressed after the interview with Nicolas Sarkozy in

Le Figaro

March 2

.

To read also:

For LR, Macron will have to "assume" a postponement of the polls

“Imagine a deal with Emmanuel Macron?

It will be difficult to find me on this path "

, denies Christian Jacob,

" I believe I have been clear from the start on man and politics.

Imagining the two of us, François Baroin and me with Emmanuel Macron, that makes no sense, ”

retorts the president of LR who has never been stingy with criticism of the head of state and the policy pursued. since 2017.

“We will have

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Source: lefigaro

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