The six candidates for the investiture of Republicans have until November 2nd to deposit their sponsorships. The internal election will be held at the Party Congress, from 1 to 4 December.
Le Monde with AFP
The sponsorship depot race is now well open for candidates for the investiture of Republicans (LR). The Team of Xavier Bertrand said on Twitter she had filed 427 elected signatures, Wednesday, October 27th. The relatives of the President of the Hauts-de-France region claim more than 500 signatures, that is to say a number of sponsors much higher than the minimum required of 250 signatures fixed by the Congress Organizing Committee to validate the participation Party internal candidates, who will be held from the 1 to on December 4th.
The figure of 500 signatures is also symbolic, since it is the number of signatures necessary to validate any candidacy for the Elysee. Mr. Bertrand, who has long envisaged to make cavalier alone for the presidential election, had left the party in 2017, before announcing his participation in the race for the nomination of the party and then his re-accession in mid-October. ” / P>
The symbolic cap of the 100,000 adherents Franchi
Another candidate for party nomination, Michel Barnier informed Europe 1 , Wednesday, which he also had more than 500 sponsorships,” Essentially elected LRs, in about 70 departments “.
On September 25, the representatives of the LR Federations had opted, after a vote and a digital congress, for an internal vote in order to designate the candidate of the party to the presidential election, rather than for a primary open to non-members. The Voting Organizing Committee then clarified the rules and timetable for the vote. Two conditions were needed to the candidates, in addition to the commitment to respect the values of the party: they had to apply before 13 October and to ensure the support of at least 250 local and national elected officials from at least 30 departments before the beginning of November. In addition to MM. Bertrand and Barnier, four candidates are trying to get their sponsorships: Valérie Pécresse, Eric Ciotti, Philippe Juvin and Denis Payre.
To be able to vote and decide the six candidates, the membership deadline to LR is 16 November. The President of the Party, Christian Jacob, has also announced, Wednesday, on Twitter that the symbolic course of the 100,000 registered had just been crossed. A breath of air for this movement fell to 60,000 members in 2019, after totaled “237 000 up-to-date contribution five years ago,” recalled Mr. Jacob on Monday.