The five candidates for the party’s nomination are now known. The vote to break the tie will be held from 1 to 4 December.
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They have four weeks to convince. A month to travel the countryside and French cities to show the party activists Republicans (LR) that the best candidate in the presidential election for the party can not be nobody else. Thursday, November 4, the applications of five executives LR eager to wear the colors of their political family in 2022 were officially accepted. The president of the Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse, the negotiator Brexit Michel Barnier, President of the Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, but also the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti and Mayor of La Garenne Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), Philippe Juvin, should all see Thursday their sponsorships validated by the party bodies. And ensured their participation in voting in two rounds which should decide the 1 st to 4 December. The entrepreneur Denis Payre, he had failed to meet the Tuesday, November 2, filing deadline of support of 250 parliamentarians LR. A failure that led him to file an appeal with the party leadership.
For others, it’s a race against the clock which officially begins. The campaign has certainly not expected Thursday to start, but it is entering a new phase in which some play anything less than their political destiny.
Xavier Bertrand is preparing also for years. He who had categorically rejected the principle of an internal race was first launched in spring 2021, before circumstances forced him to submit to a vote of militants to the taste and smell of a primary. Systematically favorite national polls, he finds himself having to convince every inch of members in many want him still to have left the party in 2017. To win them to his cause, the former Minister of Labor is still considering thirty movements in all federations, having performed more than twenty-five. Objective: directly touch some ten thousand people
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Xavier Bertrand, the internal race is a “trump card terrific”: “The project I wear, he told the World, is true to the values of the right and the only one able to beat Emmanuel Macron and straighten the country. “in his various passages to the militants, the president of the Hauts-de-France has also not really in lace, explaining that if he was not chosen, the party would lose the election.
The crucial TV debate
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