During the Cold War, the two East-West Blocs avoided direct, potentially apocalyptic confrontation as much as possible, preferring to fight on theaters of indirect confrontation: Korea, Vietnam, Mozambique, Nicaragua... The race for the presidency of the party Republicans, which ends this week, is also the terrain of a latent war, underway for several months on the right.
Two candidates compete there: Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau.
And behind them, the imposing, even cumbersome shadows of regional bosses Laurent Wauquiez and Xavier Bertrand, who are already eyeing the next presidential election, in 2027. They were already present during the election of the president of the LR group in the Assembly ( 1-0 for Wauquiez), at the end of June.
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