He is used to it but all the same, what pressure on the shoulders of Eric Dupond-Moretti.
The Minister of Justice would be approached to take the head of the LREM list in the Hauts-de-France region.
Since the rumor was unveiled by Politico this Wednesday morning, it has gained in depth.
Discussions seem seriously engaged within the majority and the government so that the former tenor of the Lille bar, originally from Maubeuge (North), replaces Laurent Pietraszewski in this function.
"It would be the right candidate to score better than Pietraszewski and force Xavier Bertrand in view of the triangular (or even quadrangular) of the second round", thus assured a government source to AFP.
The EDM option should settle "within the week", continued a source inside LREM.
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If the rumor were confirmed, it would add salt to this ballot which will already not be lacking.
Not only the National Gathering, led by Sébastien Chenu, hopes to capitalize on fairly good results in municipal elections, especially in Pas-de-Calais.
But, in addition, Xavier Bertrand, outgoing president and favorite in the polls, conditioned the rest of his political career, and therefore the presidential election, on his victory.
"I forbid myself nothing"
Asked last September by readers of Le Parisien about his professional “next step”, Dupond-Moretti, amused, replied “I am not saying anything more about my future”.
And added this "I do not forbid myself" from those who have done well.
A novice in politics, never a candidate and therefore never elected, Eric Dupond-Moretti did not hide his intention to get involved in the ballot, testifies to AFP the LREM deputy of the North, Christophe di Pompeo. The latter was contacted a few days ago by the minister's office telling him, he assures us, "that he wanted to get involved in the campaign". "There is nothing stopped," says one in the entourage of the minister. The Keeper of the Seals has always said his attachment to Hauts-de-France and his desire to help the presidential majority during the regional. Nothing has changed ".
In the departmental elections which take place on the same dates as the regional ones, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, will be a candidate in his department of North.
Éric Dupond-Moretti could therefore have chosen a less exposed campaign.
"It seems a bit big," said a government source quoted by AFP.
Acquittator, his penalist nickname, “would he want to lead the fight?
Yes surely.
Want to sit on the regional council?
Okay ”.
At this stage, only one thing is certain: there will be no alliance in Hauts-de-France between Xavier Bertrand and LREM as there may have been, for a day and a half. , between LR and the majority in the Paca region.
