Less than three weeks before the first round, the right sees the chances of reaching the second round diminish day by day.
In the Ifop survey for Paris Match, LCI and Sud Radio, published on Monday, Valérie Pécresse reached 10.5% of voting intentions … eight points behind the second place occupied by Marine Le Pen, gauged at 18.5 %.
A balance of power which pushes the LR deputy for Yonne Guillaume Larrivé to consider other scenarios.
If the latter has a place in the campaign organization chart, as a “political adviser” to the contender, he does not intend to sit idly by until April 10.
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In an interview granted to Le
Point
, the former deputy director of the cabinet of Brice Hortefeux affirms it from the start:
“I would have liked to be able to put a bulletin “Nicolas Sarkozy” in the ballot box of the presidential election.
I was and I remain a Sarkozyist.
For the one whose name had circulated to join the Castex government in the summer of 2020,
“there are now strong convergences between the project presented by LR and the presidential project of Emmanuel Macron.”
A finding of relative ideological uniformity which pushes him to foresee the future of his camp in the event of re-election of the tenant of the Elysée.
"This is excellent news for our country because it should make it possible to lay the foundations for joint action",
explains Guillaume Larrivé, according to whom
“being responsible means considering, now, publicly, the scenarios of the second round since the future of France depends on it.”
“Building a new majority for France”
Way to soap the board of candidate LR while Valérie Pécresse multiplies to differentiate herself at all costs from the balance sheet and the program of the president-candidate.
Especially after Emmanuel Macron did not rule out the possibility of taking her into his government during his programmatic press conference last week.
Most polls for the moment drawing a second round between the President of the Republic and Marine Le Pen, the deputy details his plan if the right suffers a new disqualification in the first round.
"If Valérie Pécresse is eliminated, I will commit myself so that Emmanuel Macron is again president and so that the Republicans participate, in the Assembly, in building a new majority for France",
he indicates while the question of the legislative elections already agitates the presidential stables.
