The Centrists, who re-elected Hervé Morin at their head on Sunday, plead for an “
open
”
primary in
order to “
fully
”
participate
in the nomination of the right and center candidate for the presidential election.
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Our candidate must be appointed as part of an open primary which remains today the only way to decide
" the potential candidates, affirms this party in a motion adopted during the congress in La Seyne-sur-mer on Sunday.
"
A closed primary, which would be based on the only members of political families, would be an extremely negative signal when we call for the gathering of the French
", and this "would
prevent the constitution of a
vital
dynamic
", they add, while LR activists are due to decide next Saturday how they will nominate the right and center candidate for 2022.
The activists will then have to choose between two methods, the primary in which Xavier Bertrand refuses to participate, or a congress (ie a meeting of members) whose terms have not yet been decided.
The Republicans convene a political bureau Wednesday on the subject.
Hervé Morin, president of the Normandy region, was re-elected for a three-year term, added the press release, specifying that an investiture commission has also started its work to prepare for the legislative elections of 2022.