A postcard is usually sent during the holidays.
Laurent Wauquiez, he chose to send his own before leaving, before France fully throws itself into the torpor of August.
In a long interview with Figaro Magazine, the president (LR) of the Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes region, easily re-elected in June, reiterates all his desire to count and to weigh on the right in view of the presidential election.
And before that, with a view to a possible primary within his political family, in the fall.
Dramatizing the deadline of 2022, of which he makes a "meeting of civilization", Laurent Wauquiez calls for "repairing France" which "goes down the steps of the staircase of decline".
And lists what he considers to be the priorities for the upcoming campaign, with a focus on “the economy and the regal”.
In three points, he insists on the need to "revalue work", "decrease in public spending" to reduce the debt, and believes that "we must stop immigration time to assimilate those who are with us" .
The "danger" of being "the dumbest right in the world" again
Beyond the bottom, he drapes himself in a unifying posture on the right.
“I made the choice of the collective as we approached this presidential deadline.
I want to try to the end this chance to be able to bring together, ”thus argues the former boss of the Republicans party, who resigned after the slap in the Europeans of May 2019 (8.48%).
On July 20, he indeed participated in a meeting alongside Valérie Pécresse, Bruno Retailleau, Philippe Juvin and Michel Barnier - all aspiring candidates - in order to insist on the need to become one.
"The danger is to find oneself again to be the dumbest right in the world, plagued by its divisions", warns Laurent Wauquiez in the Figaro Magazine.
Her counterpart from Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse declared herself a candidate last week, the emergency doctor and mayor (LR) of La Garenne-Colombes Philippe Juvin followed suit;
both inclined to go through a "tiebreaker" to the right.
Wauquiez, he does not go so far, but he was obviously keen to symbolically remind that nothing will happen without him.
A warning to Xavier Bertrand
This interview is also (especially?) The opportunity to send yet another alert to Xavier Bertrand - presidential candidate whatever happens, even if the person says he wants to gather.
"Any rushed application does not help the collective," asserts Wauquiez, who addresses the boss of Hauts-de-France directly: "To sit down together, to debate together, to win together, that is not an option, it is is a duty for everyone.
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Unlike Xavier Bertrand or Valérie Pécresse, who will both roam France up and down to "take the pulse of the country", as it is customary to say, Laurent Wauquiez should stay within the borders of his region.
"A beautiful classic summer," said a relative.
He must take the opportunity to mature his decision: officially declare himself a candidate or not?
It should be known by the end of the summer, and it is not improbable that its traditional ascent of Mont Mézenc, between Ardèche and Haute-Loire, Sunday, August 29, will seal this choice.
Another postcard to mark the end of the holidays, and perhaps the start of hostilities.
