The Lot deputy, who gathered 22.29 % of the voices of the members during the primary, will not give any voting instructions before the duel for the head of the right party, Sunday 11 December.
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Aurélien Pradié thinks of having “never been loved” as in recent days. “I am extremely moved by the love marks of my two friends, they even intensified”, quipped Tuesday December 6 in an interview with Figaro The Lot deputy, in reference to His two competitors of the first round of the election for the Presidency of the Les Républicains Party (LR), from which he took third place.
But neither Eric Ciotti nor Bruno Retailleau will publicly have the favors of the one who collected on December 4, 22.29 % of the votes of the party members: he refrains the slightest voting instruction and wins the ” secret of the booth “.
If he refuses to take a stand for one of his two former competitors, Aurélien Pradié takes care to distinguish it, with covered words. “Now, those who looked at us with contempt, and sometimes compassion, respect our vision of a right that goes back to all French people,” prides himself on the parliamentarian, when Eric Ciotti (42.73 % in the first round), Chantre of the authoritarian and sovereign wing of the party, and Bruno Retailleau (34.45 %), conservative and liberal, are sometimes accused of cornetizing the line of the right party.
divergence on pensions
“If they want to respect the 22 % of voters who have trusted me, you have to be interested in ideas, warns Mr. Pradié in Le Figaro. Almost a quarter of the members chose a candidate who Rejected the pension reform proposed by Emmanuel Macron on the grounds that she is unfair. I expect that before the second round my friends position themselves on the pension reform. “The two candidates have already” positioned “: they are ready to vote it on certain conditions.
LR members will decide between Eric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau during a second vote open from Saturday (6 p.m.) to Sunday (6 p.m.). The name of the future president, who will succeed Christian Jacob, resigning in June, will be known shortly after the closure of the vote. The two finalists plead for the “rally”, essential to avoid the clinical death of a party fallen to 4.8 % in the last presidential election.