Michel Barnier, Philippe Juvin, Valérie Pécresse, Bruno Retailleau, Laurent Wauquiez ... all declared or supposed candidates for a possible primary of the right will meet, according to information from
Figaro
, around Christian Jacob, Jean Leonetti and Gérard Larcher, Tuesday July 20, perhaps in the Senate.
A ground considered more neutral than the headquarters of the Republicans while the president of the Ile-de-France region has left the party since 2019.
Mandated by Christian Jacob to work on "a process of bringing together"
, Jean Leonetti has multiplied the phone calls and SMS for a week with the candidates. With the objective of achieving to make all the agendas coincide. Between campaign trips and plenary sessions of regional councils, next week,
"the meeting has already moved three times in 24 hours," said
a participant. But all have the will to talk to each other and get ready for the presidential election.
"
A candidacy for the presidential election must exceed our personal ambition
," Christian Jacob had not ceased to hammer in recent months.
Union cannot be decreed, it cannot be built in feverishness and haste, but with coolness (…).
But no one will win alone.
The idea made its way to the right and among the Republicans ...
All but one, Xavier Bertrand will not come
"
We all have to see each other, talk to each other, share our diagnosis of the state of France,
" said Valérie Pécresse on July 1 in Le Parisien.
"Our responsibility is to arrive united and united in front of the French, and thus to be at the rendezvous of this major election"
, agreed two days later Michel Barnier in Le JDD.
“If we build the rally, we will be unbeatable! I am totally ready to take the necessary steps to build the process of rallying, ”
continued Laurent Wauquiez last week, in the political office of the Republicans.
Above all, these elected officials refuse to rely on
"polls, the reliability of which is more than ever in doubt"
to designate the candidate of their political family. In a column published in
Le Figaro
last week, Laurent Wauquiez, Valérie Pécresse, Bruno Retailleau and the centrist Hervé Morin warned against the risk of
"wild competition and (of) solitary adventures by making the first round of the race. 'presidential election the only way to decide between the candidatures of our family ”
.
Only downside: the presidential candidate Xavier Bertrand, also invited, did not follow up. The presidential candidate keeps repeating that he will not participate in a right-wing primary.
The president of Hauts-de-France, in contact with each of the elected officials, does not therefore intend, indicates his entourage, to come to a meeting devoted to this subject. At the risk of robbing his friends.
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