It will be necessary to wait until 2022 to have the name of the candidate of the right.
In any case, this is what Jean-François Copé thinks.
Invited on France 2 this Monday, the mayor Les Républicains de Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) has shaken up the calendar, which is already struggling to establish itself, of his political family.
While the activists voted for a Congress supposed to decide between the candidates on December 4, the city council believes that "
the question can not be decided
" until January.
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The option chosen by the Congress did not in fact solve everything: at present, the ex-LR president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, is still opposed to this tie-breaking method.
On several occasions, the elected official called on the other candidates to line up behind his candidacy.
Without success.
An agreement "based on polls"
Faced with this composite landscape, Jean-François Cope therefore thinks that the Congress will not mark the end of the discussions. On the contrary. According to him, in the event that Xavier Bertrand persists in not submitting to the vote of the militants, then it would be necessary that the winner and himself "
come to an agreement in January according to the polls
", and that, "
Above all, whoever is behind agrees to withdraw
". For the moment, Xavier Bertrand enjoys a very slight lead in voting intentions according to the various studies.
For Jean-François Copé, all this is the result of "
an absence of leadership
".
He does not support “
anyone
”, despite his “
sympathy
” for Valérie Pécresse and his “
esteem
” for Michel Barnier.
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So that the voice of his political family weighs in 2022, the elected representative also calls on his colleagues to “
refuse any compromise and any alliance
” with Eric Zemmour.
"
Yes
", some are tempted, he assured.
But joining him would be "
a fatal mistake
".
“
From the moment we give way on this dike, we can no longer talk about anything.
(...) It is because we have an airtight dyke that we can say things, that we can speak of an uninhibited right
, ”he continued.
Zemmour is "not De Gaulle"
Jean-François Copé also believes that the polemicist is "
not de Gaulle
", but rather "
Charles Maurras
", the "
theorist of the French extreme right in the nineteenth century
".
“
It is the one who spoke at the time of the great replacement (...).
I have never heard that at the RPR and naturally not at the UMP either,
”he stressed, while the almost candidate regularly claims to belong to the former right-wing formation.
“
This is the intellectual deception of the week.
Zemmour makes believe that he is with the RPR, which is a classic temptation besides of the extreme right since always
“, again castigated the elected official.
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After stepping back, Jean-François Cope is now determined to “
participate a little more in the public debate
”.
The reason: “
It is important that certain voices are heard in the face of the rise of the far right.
And I consider that today what Eric Zemmour says cannot be taken lightly and must be contradicted.
The mayor even said he was ready to debate “
when he wants
” with the polemicist.
"
It is good that we have some knowledge of stories to bear the contradiction
", he judged.
