Speed up and put pressure on other suitors.
This Wednesday, October 6, while Les Républicains hold a political office to set up the organizing committee of the congress, which will appoint on October 4 the candidate of the right and the center for the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse passes the second.
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The president of the Île-de-France region chose this day to submit the 250 sponsorship pledges necessary to be able to compete in the congress.
Patrick Stefanini, his campaign manager, and Frédéric Péchenard, his vice-president at the Ile-de-France Regional Council, will submit the documents to the political bureau.
End of inadmissibility
She is the first to do so, among the candidates declared on the right.
And this, one week before the deadline of October 10 set by The Republicans.
A way to prove that it will be necessary to count on it for the continuation, and a clear end of inadmissibility to the proposal of Xavier Bertrand of a congress of gathering around his candidacy.
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The latter had announced a few days ago in
Le Figaro
that he would not submit to "
a congress of confrontation
" or to a primary "
in a disguised form
".
He had proposed to the other candidates to meet "
very quickly
".
Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier had for their part enjoined to
"respect the rules"
set by the party.
Michel Barnier, who also intends to go all the way, will present by the end of the week the list of his departmental referents responsible for collecting his sponsorship promises.
A way, for him too, to let it be known that he will participate in the Congress of Republicans.