The Lot deputy will face in the first round of this election scheduled for December 3, his colleague deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, holding a hard line on the Régalien, and the president of the Senators LR, Bruno Retailleau, from The Conservative Wing.
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He had suggested that the post interested him in July, it is now official. The secretary general of the Republicans (LR), Aurélien Pradié, formalized Monday September 12 in an interview at Figaro his candidacy for the party’s presidency to” rebuild “the” popular right “and avoid a “war of chefs”.
“I hope that the right talks about everything, of each concern of the French, and that it speaks to everyone, from the most humble to the most favored”, says number three of LR, relying on the members Who “do not want to replay the matches of yesterday, nor a new war of chefs”.
The Lot deputy will face in the first round of this election scheduled for December 3, his colleague deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, holding a hard line on the Régalien, and the president of the Senators LR, Bruno Retailleau, from the conservative wing.
Against all expectations, Eric Ciotti had been able to speak to the activists and finished finalist of the previous congress who had appointed the candidate of the Republicans in the presidential election. At a time when the party, out of the exsangue from the presidential election after the historic camouflet recorded by its candidate Valérie Pécresse (4.78 % of the votes), must choose a new president, the elected southern dreams of reiterating the feat.
Faced with him, the Vendéen Bruno Retailleau wants to “federate” on a popular and patriotic line “. He has garnered support this summer: Gérard Larcher, François-Xavier Bellamy and Othman Nasrou (who both gave up on introduction).
The candidacy of Virginie Calmels, former number two of LR, was rejected by the High Authority of the Party.
“We must change everything”
“With Eric and Bruno, we respect ourselves”, but “their applications are alike”, estimates the 36 -year -old deputy, while ensuring that hers “is different”. “We are today in danger of death” and “we must change everything: the name, the seat, our organization, our message”, assures Aurélien Pradié, who wants to “assume the break, including with Nicolas Sarkozy”.
Often suspected in his own camp to be too on the left, he says he is “fully right” and invokes “the republican promise” and the “demand for emancipation”. But beyond the social, he advances firm ideas on immigration, in particular to “make all probationary residence permits” for three years and to create “a specialized court”.
On ecology, “economically, socially and morally priority”, Mr. Pradié promises “a broad debate on the question of water”. “I will open the debate on the hyper-consumption society,” he adds, specifying “always refuse decrease”.
He also pleads for a pension reform “on the basis of the annuities worked” and a strong revaluation of the wages of the teachers “in return for a longer time spent in teaching”.
About Laurent Wauquiez’s candidacy for the presidential election of 2027, which Eric Ciotti would like to act from the beginning of 2023, Aurélien Pradié says he is “not certain that to exhibit our future candidate for nuclear fire from January is a service to give it back “. “Our presidential candidate will need neither a courtier nor a competitor”, but “a loyal party leader, who completes him and mobilizes an army: that’s what I will be”, promises -il.