The President Les Républicains of the Hauts-de-France region wants to have his own training to win against Laurent Wauquiez on the right.
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French political history is full of desert crossings completed by a return, sometimes triumphant, often unhappy. Xavier Bertrand, the President (Les Républicains, LR) of Hauts-de-France, formulates the wish that his reappearance on the front of the stage, Saturday 1 er October, in Saint-Quentin (Aisne) , belongs rather to the first category.
of this back to school a little offbeat, the former Minister of Labor decided to make it the official launch of his Party We France, whose statutes had however been filed at the end of 2021. One way for him to do Know the existence of this structure and to rob the spotlight on what he intends to do in the future.
Not that Xavier Bertrand has completely disappeared from radars. The presidency of a large region always makes it possible to participate in the national debate. But the blow he received in December 2021, during the designation congress of the candidate of the right to the presidential election, had everything at the end of the political part. Long considered a favorite, it had been swept away in the first round of the primary, arriving fourth, with 22.36 % of the votes, behind Eric Ciotti, Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier. Everything was ready, however: the project, the relays, the surveys in good shape. Las, obliged to submit to the vote of the members of the LR party, many of whom reproached him for his departure from 2017, the one who imagined taking the place of Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée was not even able to present himself to the presidential election. Before this rout, he himself had implied several times in the event of failure, he would give up for good national ambition.
Here it is up in the saddle. With a clearly displayed ambition for the presidential election of 2027. A decision matured during the legislative elections campaign, quickly enough after the defeat of Valérie Pécresse. Called to the rescue by a number of deputies wishing to save their headquarters in the National Assembly, Xavier Bertrand explains that he understood at the time that this “was not because of his project” that he had lost the primary. “I realized that the ideas I had still had all their relevance,” he says.
“reconnect with the proposals”
His political line, he will bring it just on Saturday for some 1,000 people who have registered. Workshops are organized in the morning, before a speech he will hold in the afternoon. A carte blanche will also be given to Gilles Finchelstein, director general of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, on the theme “Why the right still loses”. “I will explain the observation that I am making on the situation of France and what is the project of society on which we work,” explains Mr. Bertrand. “The idea is to reconnect with the proposals,” he insists, pleading, for example, for the compulsory payment of a compulsory premium of 1,000 euros in companies, whose dividends increased by One year on the other.
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