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LR Congress: Xavier Bertrand, the fall of the former favorite

2021-12-02T14:25:05.668Z


STORY - Having started very early in the race, the president of Hauts-de-France has lost his bet of becoming the right-wing candidate for the presidential election.


Xavier Bertrand played big, very big.

Coming fourth in the first round, with 22.36% of the vote, the candidate for Congress fails to qualify for the second round.

Until the end, he believed in it.

"

I'm not doing all that so as not to be in the second round,

" he confided at the start of the week.

He had planned everything: not to stop on the day of the vote so as not to change the pace or feel fatigue invade him.

"

He doesn't want to have the baby blues

", joked one of his relatives.

The candidate had also planned a press conference for the announcement of the results and then a media on Thursday evening before moving on to an 8 p.m. Saturday in the wake of the second round from which he saw himself emerging as a winner.

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Provident, he then got down to organizing the rest: gathering of elected officials between December 4 and 11, first trips as a candidate for the right, even during the Christmas holidays, then a big meeting in January.

Then nothing.

Everything stopped abruptly.

Suddenly.

Just

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Source: lefigaro

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