LE FIGARO. - The Republicans will nominate their candidate at the end of a congress on December 4. Are we witnessing the beginnings of an announced disaster?
Jean-Louis BOURLANGES. -
In the aftermath of the regional elections, it seemed to me that the retreat of the National Rally opened up space for the moderate right, since its project would be in line with the continuity of the Macronian heritage, in addition to being more conservative in terms of customs.
There was for a candidate LR the hope of touching "the bonus for degagism" characteristic of a Fifth Republic which has never seen an outgoing president be re-elected by the people without having gone through a regenerative phase of cohabitation.
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Since then, Zemmour, whom I had not seen coming more than anyone, has changed the situation or, in any case, seriously disrupted the game. He has given color and potential voters to a right of identity rupture, populist and sovereignist who, apart from the Pétain episode, had left the political game since the affair
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