The post-presidential period is already taking shape.
While the French must go to the polls in three weeks, the outcome of the queen election will reshuffle the cards in some political parties.
Starting with the right and its leader Valérie Pécresse, whose polls, for the moment, no longer promise qualification in the second round.
It is in this context that the future of the right is being prepared.
According to information from
Obs
, Rachida Dati aims to take the reins of the Republicans and succeed Christian Jacob after the legislative elections next June.
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And the current mayor of the 7th arrondissement to clarify his intentions to the magazine.
“
I plan to run for the presidency of LR (…).
(to)
win back the popular categories abandoned by the right
”, indicates Rachida Dati, who plans to invest in certain “
societal subjects
”.
For the moment, the former Minister of Justice does not wish to make her ambitions public.
In particular so as not to hinder Valérie Pécresse even more, who does not manage to print in the opinion three weeks before the first round.
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If Rachida Dati had already mentioned a possible candidacy for the presidential election, she had not yet indicated her intentions as to the presidency of her party.
A position held by Christian Jacob since October 2019, a few months after the resignation of the boss of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez.
The former mayor of Provins should leave his post vacant after the presidential and legislative deadlines.
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In an interview with
Figaro
in early February, the former contender for mayor of Paris had already not hesitated to mock Valérie Pécresse's campaign strategy.
“The French must have the feeling that she will do.
We must resist technocratic postures.
However, the alignment of proposals can only appear as a technocratic posture.
The presidential election is above all the meeting of a man or a woman with the French people, not with a sum of proposals”,
scolded the current mayor of the 7th arrondissement.
If she has since been more discreet about the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse, Rachida Dati had not spared her campaign manager, Patrick Stefanini, a few days later on France Info: "
He does not give me a lesson, I do not give him of lesson.
It should still be remembered that he was sentenced for fictitious jobs.
(...) Let him stay in his place.
When he wins a campaign, he will come and teach me lessons.
»