The President of the Ile-de-France region had to surrender on Friday in the fief of his counterpart of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in Haute-Loire.
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They all came. Making against bad fortune good heart, the unhappy candidates with the investiture of the right (Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti and Philippe Juvin) converged on Saturday 11 December, to the mutuality, in Paris, to display their support for that That the Party the Republicans (LR) had just chosen to defend his colors in the presidential election. The right, after years of divisions and quarrels, can finally show the image of a party in order of walking behind Valérie Pécresse. Yet a person shone by his absence, that day: the president of the Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez.
Same scenario, three weeks later, during the inauguration of the candidate’s campaign seat, rue Torricelli, in the 17 e district of the capital. All the Tenors of LR make block behind her, except Laurent Wauquiez, again absent. It was not necessary to make sure that some right begin to issue doubts about the involvement of the President of the Region in the presidential campaign of the one who was his colleague to the government during the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy. Mr. Wauquiez, however, inherited a mission in the campaign: responsible for the support committee, of which he provides management, alongside the honorary president, the boss of the Senate, Gérard Larcher. But, in the team, we can not help but notify that it has been more present at the National Commissions of the Party for the legislative and strategic meetings where the tenors are found on Tuesday morning.
The visit of the candidate in the Fief of Laurent Wauquiez, in Haute-Loire, Friday, January 21, to speak education therefore falls at peak. The two region presidents had to visit a health house, then lunch in camera with local elected officials, before visiting the Cathedral of Puy-en-Velay a little later in the day. The opportunity to be welded in front of the cameras, while it’s a secret for anyone, Pécresse and Wauquiez have never heard. The ex-boss of the party had not appreciated the criticisms against his line advanced by the President of the Ile-de-France region to explain that she left LR. A rightful line now useful to the candidate, who knows how much Wauquiez is appreciated by the LR activists and an electorate attached to identity and civilizational themes, agitated by the elected of the time he presided over the party.
Background work
In the entourage of the Region President, we refute the trials in the absence, explaining that Mr. Wauquiez ensures, behind the scenes, a substantially noticeable background work. Once the support committees, which he provides supervision, mounted, he should go to visit them all over France.
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