After a month of internal campaigning, the Les Républicains activists have made their choice.
For the first round, they placed Éric Ciotti (25.59%) and Valérie Pécresse (25%) at the top of the podium, thus eliminating Michel Barnier (23.93%), Xavier Bertrand (22.36%) and Philippe Juvin (3.13%).
Results for some unexpected, and which make Jean-Luc Mélenchon say that "
the republican right
" has disappeared.
To discover
Presidential 2022: where are the candidates in the polls?
Read also LR Congress: eliminated in the first round, Bertrand, Barnier and Juvin call for a vote for Pécresse
The leader of the rebels had expressed a wish.
In our columns of November 11, he pleaded, "
in the interest of the country
", for "
the return of a republican right which defends in its own way the principles that we have in common since the Liberation
".
But faced with the surprise victory of Eric Ciotti, holding a firm line, and debates largely focused on questions of security and immigration, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is almost nostalgic.
"It's a surly speech"
The day after the results of the first round, he therefore deplores the “
disappearance
” of a “
appeased
”
right
, of “
the bourgeois republic
” and for which workers and employees sometimes voted.
This right is made up of "
people who ardently defend Republican principles
" but "
do not go overboard like that
".
According to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “
many people who were once in the Christian democracy
” “then
recognized themselves in the RPR
”.
But those days are over.
And "
now
", "
it is a surly speech
" which took the top.
Read also LR Congress: we checked some proposals from Eric Ciotti and Valérie Pécresse
To this disappearance, the suitor adds a dire future.
For him, the “
promised fate
” of the right is now “
to be stripped on one side by the extreme right, and on the other side by Mr. Macron
”.
Although he is one of his fervent adversaries, Jean-Luc Mélenchon even admitted to the Head of State that he embodied "
a more civilized right
", in opposition to that of the Republicans who "
horrifies
" "
people. right
”.
