Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse, Philippe Juvin and Eric Ciotti have each defended their project in front of the members of the National Council, Saturday, November 20th.
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Exam day in a studious atmosphere. Ten days of the Voting of the Party Congress The Republicans, and on the eve of a third television debate (on CNEWS and Europe 1, Sunday evening), the five candidates for Inauguration LR, Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse , Philippe Juvin and Eric Ciotti, have planned one after the other before the members of the National Council (the Parliament of the Party), meeting Saturday, November 20 at the Congress Palace of Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de -Seine. A “very political” department recalled one of the competitors, the emergency and mayor of the Garenne-Colombe, Philippe Juvin, and the earth of three ex-figures of the party, Charles Pasqua, Patrick Devedjian and Nicolas Sarkozy . The first two died, the third is struggling in an interminable judicial order paper: funny omen for a party that struggles for its survival, stuck between a far straight protean and the macrony that siphon some of its executives and voters since five years.
But at five months of the vote, the holders of the “Republican Right” want to hang up at the glorious hours of the past and believe it again. “Peasants, we hollow the furrow, and we go straight to victory,” said the boss of the party, Christian Jacob, while the President of the National Council, Annie Genevard, boasted a recovery party, including Emmanuel Macron permanently would fly permanently. Ideas.
“Serious”, “energy” and “break”
Launched in a blind race, While no reliable indicator is used to measure their rating with the 150,000 members, the candidates alternately played their partition – one hour each – in front of the 700 national advisers, showing little Background differences, more style. Presenting himself as a “serious, very serious candidate”, the former European Commissioner Michel Barnier once again gained his past, cursus honorum, which he draws his legitimacy: elected from Savoie to 22 years old (“I beaten a priest Deferated, “he curiously clarified), Minister, High Leader. “I remind you that I was a member of Robert Poujade’s cabinet”, even added the dean of the candidates, who spoke of a soft and corseed voice, reading his notes.
Tilts “solitary, arrogant, sometimes contemptuous” of Macron, he proposed another method, more “collective” and rehabilitating the intermediate bodies, defending his three “priorities”: “recovery of the order” (a “Electrochec of authority”), the stop of immigration (reduction of family reunion, restoration of the double punishment, end of the AME), and the restoration of the budgetary seriousness (fight against “tax evasion and social “and the” bureaucratic delirium of standards “). “For my part, I have never been part of those who found Laurent Wauquiez too right,” he said, while two of his rivals, Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand, left a time the party He denounced the right-hand drift. The ex-boss of the party, forced to resign after failure to the European of 2019, has also applauded many times throughout this day, late revenge.
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