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Xavier Bertrand is not a man to give up easily.
Forced to go through the hoops of a primary organized by the Republicans before the 2022 presidential election, the president of the Hauts-de-France region does not intend to make the same mistake for the meeting of 2027. He knows that he must be on the starting line without having to go through this internal designation, even if he keeps his LR card.
“I am very determined and very relaxed,”
he explained a few weeks ago, talking about the months to come.
In 2022, he saw LR activists prefer Valérie Pécresse.
To avoid finding himself in this situation, Xavier Bertrand must transform the opinion polls, which are rather favorable, into voting intentions.
In 2021, Nicolas Sarkozy told him that he had to be at least 18% to avoid going through a primary.
Hence his decision to leave early, three years before, and to focus his speech…
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