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Regional: on the right, the Bertrand-Pécresse-Wauquiez fight for the presidential candidacy is launched

2021-06-26T23:50:50.156Z


The three presidential right-wingers, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez, will draw from their probable re-election in their r


All fervent Gaullists are familiar with this sentence pronounced by General de Gaulle on May 15, 1962 about politics after his death.

“What is to be feared (…), he warned, is not the political vacuum, it is rather the overflow…”.

At the end of the first round of the regional elections, it is this same fate that awaits the right before the presidential election.

If Sunday's ballot brought back a smile to LR leaders, it will probably not make it possible to sort out the three right-wing region presidents considered to be presidential, all in the lead in their region (Xavier Bertrand in Hauts-de- France, Laurent Wauquiez in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Valérie Pécresse in Ile-de-France).

"Better to manage the abundance than the shortage", reassures a tenor LR.

Even if officially, they are all fully engaged in their jump-off campaign which restarted on Monday on the hats of wheels, each is preparing his score to make the most of the results of the regional.

Read alsoRegional: with Bertrand, Pécresse and Wauquiez in the lead at home, the right breathes

“Xavier Bertrand made 25% in the first round in 2015. The polls gave it between 32 and 35% and he finished at 41.39%! He proved that we can push back the National Rally, that's why he was elected. The big winner is him! “Boasts a close friend of Picard, the only candidate declared for the presidential election so far. From 8 p.m. this Sunday, the president of Hauts-de-France, fallen by five LREM ministers, was the first to speak on television to congratulate himself for having "loosened, to break them, the jaws of the National Front" . A way already to position itself as the best alternative to Emmanuel Macron to obstruct Marine Le Pen next year. And try to impose himself as the natural candidate of the right, he who insists that he will not pass, no matter what,through a tie-breaking process organized by LR of which he is no longer a member.

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Xavier Bertrand is pleased to have "broken the jaws of the RN"

“Bertrand won points.

Everyone says:

hats off to the artist!

“, Recognizes a source LR yet favorable to a primary.

To capitalize on his (very likely) victory, Xavier Bertrand planned to accelerate immediately.

This summer, he will not take a vacation and will campaign all over France.

At the end of August, "he will not make a political comeback since he will never be out!"

“, Laughs a very close.

Bertrand goes for it, Wauquiez gives himself the summer to think

"Rushing after the second round of regional will have no effect on the French," we believe on the contrary in Laurent Wauquiez who gives himself the summer to think about a possible presidential candidacy. But his team is already arguing that with 43.79%, the president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes achieves the best score in France, with a peak of 67.71% in Haute-Loire. Conversely, with 12.33% of the vote, this is where the RN recorded its worst performance, excluding Corsica. “We achieve North Korean scores in rural areas! ", Smiles a relative, who emphasizes that Laurent Wauquiez was able to" show that he is not the man of a camp ".

While Xavier Bertrand head-on attacking the RN, the Auvergnat does not intend to position himself against a camp and wants to propose a "positive right-wing offer which brings together the French", like a Sarkozy in 2007. Hence his Sunday evening speech in which he recalls the fundamentals of Wauquierism: "work rather than assistantship, the promotion of merit rather than the leveling down, firmness rather than laxity, the defense of our way of life rather than communitarianism… ”

Faced with a union of three left-wing lists in Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse, who collected 35.94% of the vote, is a little less serene, even if she is given favorite. "We are in a difficult region, sociologically on the left, the victory would be all the more beautiful", slips an elected official close to her. Sunday evening, the president of Ile-de-France, who is not currently a presidential candidate, therefore attacked head-on the left which "has lost its republican compass", citing in particular its refusal to ban burkinis or his supposed defense of “racialized meetings”.

Enough to recreate the left-right divide and position herself as the best champion of her camp. "It also lowered the RN and dislodged the macronie from the region where it is strongest", adds a relative who anticipates a victory which would thus be "more complete" than in Hauts-de-France or Auvergne-Rhône -Alps. "In these two regions, it was impossible for Bertrand and Wauquiez to lose against the only RN whose voters are demobilized," said a friend of Pécresse. On the right, the leadership battle for the presidential election has indeed begun.

Source: leparis

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