Jean Leonetti: "If Xavier Bertrand refuses the primary, he will appear as a dissenting candidacy"

Mayor LR d'Antibes, former interim president of the Republicans, was commissioned by Christian Jacob, the party's boss, and Gérard Larcher, the president of the Senate, to reflect on the conditions for organizing a tie-breaker system between the presidential candidates and then allow the rally.

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• Presidential 2022: where are the candidates in the polls?

LE FIGARO.

- The Republicans met in a strategic committee on Tuesday to discuss the primary and its modalities.

Where are you?

Jean LEONETTI.

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We are advancing on the path of clarifying our organization.

No one disputes that we need one candidate, and everyone who wants to run says so.

It's already a way of accepting competition.

Then everyone needs the party.

The Republicans have the means to finance a presidential campaign, they have militants, elected officials and intermediaries.

The day the “machine” gets behind a candidate, it will bring him financial, militant and territorial strength.

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