You don't bathe twice in the same river.
Especially when it lacks water, or is even close to drying up.
This is what led Laurent Wauquiez to give up running for the presidency of the Republicans.
To better prepare for 2027.
His decision will surprise.
After the failures of Xavier Bertrand in the primary and Valérie Pécresse in the presidential election, he was the last heavyweight on the right to be able to take up the challenge of the party.
It can also seem to weaken LR.
Do not go through this box, is it not to say that whoever succeeds Christian Jacob will be useless?
She can finally ask about Wauquiez himself.
He didn't want to go to the primary, he doesn't want to take LR back: a double refusal of an obstacle which may seem the antithesis of the Bonapartist temperament.
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