“This choice, I do it because I believe that it is necessary to devote all its energy to this refoundation to which aspires our country,” explains the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, who positions himself to build a “alternative”.
Le Monde with AFP
The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, renounced, Sunday, July 17, to run for the presidency of his party, the Republicans, who must designate the successor of Christian Jacob in the fall. “Today, after having thought a lot, I decided not to be a candidate for the presidency of the Republicans,” announced the former Minister of François Fillon in a long text Published on Facebook presidential election of 2027.
“This choice, I do it because I believe that it is necessary to devote all its energy to this refoundation to which aspires our country. Such a requirement does not support any dispersion. We must give ourselves completely; we must take From the distance from the political fight, “added the one who led the right party from 2017 to 2019.
“The alternative that we must build must go beyond the questions of devices. I have the conviction that it is the only path that will allow you to be at the rendezvous of the great democratic choice of 2027. Acts, no more or less, than building a change of the same nature as that of 1958, “continues Mr. Wauquiez. “The subject is neither Emmanuel Macron, nor Marine Le Pen, the subject is after,” insists the elected official of 47 years.
A decision that should open the way to competition
lr must bring together his congress in the fall to designate the successor of Christian Jacob, who left the president’s presidency on July 1 after held the position for three years. He was temporarily replaced by number two, the deputy for Doubs Annie Genevard.
m. Jacob had made Laurent Wauquiez his favorite to succeed him. But the president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes since 2016, which has made this region the laboratory of its national ambitions, seems to have another political agenda.
His decision should open the way to competition. The names of the secretary general of the Aurélien Pradié party, deputy for the Lot, of former Minister Rachida Dati, mayor of 7 e arrondissement of Paris, or the mayor of Cannes David Lisnard, president of the association Mayors of France, circulated as potential contenders for the presidency of the party.
Those of the Senator of the Vendée Bruno Retailleau, the European deputy François-Xavier Bellamy, or the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, all three close to Laurent Wauquiez, were also mentioned.