François Bayrou's screen lights up.
A message appears, the news has just fallen: The Republicans will choose their candidate on December 4 during a closed congress.
By discovering the information, Saturday evening, the president of the MoDem can not help but smile.
"It is a revealing
, he blurted in front of the Atlantic Ocean, in Guidel (Morbihan), where he gathered his troops for the return of his party.
The political landscape is devastated by ego wars. ”
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The centrist has a nice game to accelerate his plan: a union with La République en Marche (LREM) in a
"central unitary movement"
.
To hear it, the initiative is worth
“for a generation”
.
But in the short term, it allows the two main parties of the majority to play the card of unity against fragmented oppositions, seven months before the presidential election.
And too bad if the project of
"common house" is
slow to see the light of day, or if Bayrou is suspected of wanting to consolidate his place as a historic ally of the Walkers in the face of Edouard's initiatives.
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