End clap.
It was this Thursday evening, June 30, that the president of the Republicans Christian Jacob put an end to his duties as party leader.
A logical conclusion for the one who had the ambition, when he took the reins of LR in October 2019, to preside over its destiny until the presidential election.
But not beyond.
Christian Jacob will be replaced on Monday by the deputy of Doubs, Annie Genevard, who takes the interim presidency of the party until a next Congress in the fall.
A statutory succession in respect of her position as deputy vice-president of LR which she had acquired last July, replacing Guillaume Peltier, who has since left for Reconquest.
An apprenticeship that should facilitate a retraining in the private sector
Head to London throughout the month of July for Christian Jacob, who will take intensive English lessons for a month.
The former member of Seine-Maritime does not master the language of Shakespeare.
“I have always experienced this as a frustration”, explains the future
pupil
.
In addition to the pleasure of reading "Hamlet" or "Othello" in original version, this learning should also facilitate a retraining in the private sector of the ex-boss of LR in the fall.
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Another change in September: the general manager of LR, Jean-François Verdier, will leave his post and return to administration.
He will be replaced as general manager of LR by Cécile Richez, until then deputy general manager, in charge in particular of communication.
She will herself be replaced in her post by Marie-Eve Malouines, former journalist for Radio France and ex-CEO of LCP.
