His candidacy did not kill the game on the right.
But he knew it in advance, and that's why Xavier Bertrand started so early.
Failing to be the natural candidate, he is an obvious candidate.
"He is the tree in the middle of the garden"
, the one in relation to whom the others will have to position themselves, as the MEP Gilles Boyer says, who looks at his ex-friends with an Édouard Philippe anything but indifferent to what is happening. will take place in that camp.
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Anticipating his entry into the running, the boss of Hauts-de-France has freed himself from the calendar of regional elections, while two of his rivals, Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez, must first pray that there will be no not to postpone the ballot again, then wait until the end of June to go from the implicit to the explicit.
This advance has a precious advantage for Bertrand: it installs it on the 2022 poster in the minds of public opinion, which is not without impact on the polls.
But there is his bet: obtain a verdict
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