The young people of the Les Républicains party gathered in Angers on September 3 and 4 and were able to listen to the candidates Eric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau. The deputy for the Aurélien Pradié lot has not yet declared itself.
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The coming year is certainly without electoral issues. No presidential election to come or even an intermediate ballot to prepare. However, and with this lack of mat deadline, the modesty of the youth back to the Les Républicains (LR) party organized, in Angers, September 3 and 4 strikes the spirits. Nothing to do with the raout of September 2021, at the Parc Floral de Paris, a few months before the electoral spring of 2022. Functions oblige, the main leaders of course made the trip, but there were a lot of elected officials and LR executives .
Because, if the French will not go to the polls in 2023, a first since 2018, LR activists, they must designate the new president of the right -wing formation in December. A deadline which, a few years ago, would have moved the ban and the back-ban of a party that remains central to French political life for decades. But from this institution, there is not much today, as shown by the days organized at the Granniers Saint-Jean, in Angers.
It is also a story of money. According to our information, the party, which had granted 800,000 euros to young people in 2021, paid, this year, only … 30,000. Nevertheless. The absence of figures as the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, or that of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Laurent Wauquiez, whose no one is aware of the presidential ambitions for 2027, indicates the slightest importance of the party in the very eyes of those who are leading members.
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The former president of the training, Christian Jacob, having decided to leave his mandate earlier, it must however be replaced. Especially since, after the historic failure of LR to the presidential election, where Valérie Pécresse, her candidate, obtained only 4.8 % of the votes in the first round, many call for a backdrop from top to bottom which would ensure, they hope, the survival of their political family.
This change, even this reconstruction, today there are three serious competitors to want to carry it out within LR. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, the Senator of Vendée and president of the elected officials LR at the Palais du Luxembourg, Bruno Retailleau, and the current secretary general of the party and deputy of the Lot, Aurélien Pradié. If the last has not yet declared itself, the other two are, for their part, officially candidates for the election which will take place in early December. For the three men, feeling the mood of young activists, showing up and making speeches at the start of the school year was an obligatory passage.
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