Political symbolism has its reasons that sounding arithmetic does not know.
To stick to the voting intentions of the moment, the right does not have the means to disrupt the duel announced between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.
However, in a possible second round, Xavier Bertrand would not only seriously hook the outgoing head of state, but he would beat the president of the National Rally more frankly than him.
The equation of the boss of Hauts-de-France is therefore simple: rely on his status as a credible candidate in the second round to become a useful candidate in the first.
Brandish his more than honorable scores in the decisive round to make up for lost time in the qualifying round.
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Beforehand, Xavier Bertrand has a first reason to hope.
He has a very solid lead over the other contenders of his camp who, from Valérie Pécresse to Michel Barnier, are dangerously trapped in an electoral swamp where candidates from the left are also floundering.
For lack of a primary,
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