The President of the Hauts-de-France region had refused to participate in an open primary. For him, the choice of internal vote is “the condition of victory”. Even if the game will not be easy.
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At the end, they will have retained their breath, waiting for the decision of Xavier Bertrand, the boss of the Hauts-de-France region and candidate for the candidacy for the presidential ballot on the right. Would he go to the designation conference organized by the Republican Party (LR) on December 4th, with the risk of losing face in Michel Barnier or Valérie Pécresse, his most serious competitors? Or choose instead to go alone apart from any partisan procedure?
The rumor swollen, all day Monday, October 11, around a potential intervention of the person concerned on the plateau of a television newspaper whose right on the right knew if it would take place or not until confirmation In the middle of the afternoon of a passage on TF1. Sign, if another, the confusion that reigns at the moment right now. The white smoke eventually released Monday night of the studios of the first chain after a flash maintenance of four minutes and thirty seconds: “I will participate in this congress,” he immediately answered the Gilles Bouleau presenter who asked him the question.
He who had refused the concept of primary for months praised Monday, the activists who “said no to the primary because they do not want any confrontation”. For the former Minister of Labor, the choice of Congress is “the condition of victory”. And to recognize: “The ease solution would have been to make rider alone, I want to gather all the French, I have to start with my political family.”
Xavier Bertrand has thus noted those who, many even at the highest part of the party hierarchy, have feared, until the last minute, the announcement of a solitary adventure. And therefore a parallel application to the official, from the congress.
Relief
Such a scenario, repeated the one and the others, would ring the failure of the right to the presidential election: nibbled on three fronts, between Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, the training would have had no chance to survive a dual candidacy. The anxiety was also palpable in the ranks of the supports of Xavier Bertrand where until the last second, “no one could tell where he would look.”, Blows a loved one. It is only five, or even six candidates, some found that the conference designation was more and more like a primary … closed. In addition to Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier, it is necessary to count with the member of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, the Mayor of La Garenne-Colombes, Philippe Juvin, but also the entrepreneur Denis Payre. A situation that the Septertional elected representative wanted to avoid at all costs.
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