A doctor at the bedside of the right in view of 2022?
According to our information, the emergency manager of the Georges Pompidou hospital, Philippe Juvin, should imminently formalize his candidacy for a right-wing primary for the presidential election.
With an interview in a daily and a passage on a continuous news channel to hammer home his desire to be there, just a few days after Valérie Pécresse.
The mayor (LR) of La Garenne-Colombes, also president of the federation Les Républicains des Hauts-de-Seine, made himself known in the media during the health crisis, and has since made it clear that he wanted to make his voice heard. voice within his political family. However, his candidacy is not a surprise: he had already announced, a week ago, that he would participate a priori in the process of selecting his political family for 2022.
At the direction of LR, we want to do everything to avoid going through a primary, hoping that a "natural" candidate (understand, who crushes the match with his competitors) is needed, or that the contenders get along collectively on a name. But if they agree to dialogue, the latter seem rather to lean towards a selection process, with a vote of supporters of the right and the center. Last week, the presidents of Île-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the LR group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, the Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, as well as Philippe Juvin had gathered to make this voice heard. One way, too, to establish a balance of power with the president (ex-LR) of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand,who has already declared his candidacy for the presidential election, and said he would not participate in any primary.
For Dati, the decision is "taken"
This famous "meeting of the five", the mayor (LR) of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, Rachida Dati, was absent.
What she would have, according to a source, "badly taken".
This week, she is supposed to discuss with the boss of the party Christian Jacob, as well as with that of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, let his entourage know.
Several oils from the right would have told him that she had "all her place" in this potential primary, according to the entourage of one of the "five".
"Her decision is made," even said the entourage of the former Minister of Justice, who returned to the fore in her family after the municipal elections in 2020. She has even already started to organize her teams to weigh in this internal battle .
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Rachida Dati is one of the rare national media figures in her party and her participation would give even more weight to this primary.
What aspires those who want to bend Bertrand, currently still virtually the best placed on the right.
Whatever happens, we will have to wait until the beginning of autumn to see more clearly.
Activists Republicans must vote on September 25 to determine how they nominate their candidate.
And if there is a primary, each candidate will have to present at least 250 sponsorships (half of the presidential election) to be able to compete.