Guillaume Tabard: "Xavier Bertrand, an obvious candidacy but not yet natural"

2021-03-25T19:37:57.791Z

COUNTER-POINT - “I will be a candidate”, announces Xavier Bertrand. This is not surprising. His declarations of candidacy have been numerous enough for many months that no one doubts his envy.

He speaks in the future.

Not in the present tense, nor in the conditional.

“I will be a candidate,”

announces Xavier Bertrand.

He does not say "I am a candidate", as if he was setting a date by warning that the time for the presidential match has not yet come;

and that he did not forget the prerequisite, anything but incidental, of the regional ones.

But he does not say "I would be a candidate" either, to show that he does not set any conditions for his company, not even a prior gathering of his camp.

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This future is a guarantee of its determination.

He also underlines the difficulties of his approach.

Xavier Bertrand cannot in fact play with the element of surprise.

His candidacy statements, in more or less explicit terms, have been numerous enough for many months that no one doubts his desire.

For years even, those who have a little memory will recall.

The day after the defeat in 2012, he warned:

“I will be a candidate for the primary for the 2017 presidential election.

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