Find momentum.
Almost a month after the elimination of Valérie Pécresse on April 10, who only won 4.78 of the votes, the right is trying by all means to turn the page on this bitter defeat.
First horizon, the legislative elections which will be held on June 12 and 19.
It was on these hot coals that Christian Jacob, boss of LR, launched his party's campaign on Saturday afternoon during a press conference after a National Council.
With an objective for the tenors of the right: to save the furniture while the movement is threatened by the battering of the majority.
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It must be said that the news of the day more than proved them right: in the second wave of nominations unveiled on Saturday by "Renaissance" (ex-LREM), the deputy (Free!) of Essonne Robin Reda, close among relatives of Valérie Pécresse, was invested by the majority.
“This confidence honors me.
I want to make the voice of an elected official heard, capable of participating in the recovery of the country with responsibility, ”
immediately reacted the elected representative from the Ile-de-France region.
If this rallying is not to the taste of Christian Jacob - he had been warned by the parliamentarian by SMS - the former president of the LR group in the National Assembly clarifies, if necessary, the position of the right:
"In the 101 deputies, there is no double membership of the Republicans.
will be with the presidential majority, it is no longer with the Republicans.
"
It's his decision, and maybe there will be others (departures, editor's note), two or even three ...",
he tempers as if to reassure himself better when
Le Figaro
revealed this week that a maximum of 10 LR deputies could switch.
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The elected representative of Seine-et-Marne recalls that the number of transfers is far from the “50” which had been announced at the start.
“
I think we are in permanent intox with Mr. Solère
(adviser to Emmanuel Macron and organizer of the right-wing primary in 2016)
to poison the national media.
It was he who had released this figure
, ”says Christian Jacob, who also indicates that Robin Réda will have an LR competitor facing him.
In an attempt to prevent any future leak, the Republican boss also had a charter of “clarity and independence”
unanimously adopted .
in the National Council, to which candidates for deputy must commit themselves.
With two rules: do not wear the colors of the majority and do not support the project of the latter.
While many headliners do not display the Republican logo on their campaign kits, no doubt fearing a "repellent effect" on voters, the party president deplores
"a mistake"
with a right that has a
" strong territorial anchorage”
.
As for the outgoing deputies invested by LR who have no majority suitor on their land, - suggesting that these elected officials would
ultimately
risk joining the shores of Emmanuel Macron -, Christian Jacob kicks in touch.
In particular in the face of the situation of Constance Le Grip, LR deputy for Hauts-de-Seine, who could cross the Rubicon in the coming weeks.
If the latter has received
the “nomination”
of the party, the leader of the right retains the possibility of withdrawing it … without giving more details.
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In a context where the June election could experience a strong push from the RN and the new coalition of the left, the "NUPES", Christian Jacob also reiterates that the right will present 543 candidates - including 457 LR and 59 UDI -, with a guide of “
5 priorities
”,
“accompanied by thematic files to organize debates in each of each constituency”.
According to him,
"nothing is played"
in this election because "
LR is not fungible in the majority or the extremes"
and
"neither LFI nor the RN will have the majority ... so this story of prime minister no sense."
The opportunity thus to hope to have in the coming weeks
“the debate that we did not have in the presidential election.