Decode discussion of LR candidates

Trapped between Emmanuel Macron and the National Rally (RN), the right is looking for a new leader…but is still waiting for a providential man to don his colors in 2027. We explain the highlights, ambiguities, and paradoxes of the uniquely televised debate on internal elections – which It aired Monday, November 21 on LCI — which, by the executives’ own admission, doesn’t wow audiences.

Potential chefs who won’t be cooking

Three contenders for the leadership of the oath but no ambitious president. That is the message that the contenders to succeed Christian Jacob who faced off against each other during this one-of-a-kind televised showdown wanted to send, less than two weeks before the Republican Party Internal (LRI) balloting to be held on December 4 and December. 11.. “I still have time to prepare for that.”summoned the vicar of Lot Aurélien Pradié who, from the prime of his 36 years, made his youth an electoral alibi, in the form of a promise of renewal for a moribund party. “If I had wanted to be a presidential candidate, I would have been a year ago,” Bruno Retaio, senator from Vendée, replied.

An argument that contradicts Eric Ciotti’s argument? Alpes-Maritimes deputy was already one of the contenders in the primaries organized by the party a year ago, and even one of the finalists. Today, however, he says he wants to hand over the leader’s label to Laurent Wauquiez from the beginning of 2023. oath