François-Xavier Bellamy, a conservative skilled in politics, within the marketing campaign | EUROtoday

François-Xavier Bellamy casts his blue gaze on his visitors. Between dessert and low, the dialogue shifted to his picture as a conservative mental. Despite this label which is typically stinging for him, the chief of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering – as in 2019 – within the European elections of June 9 lets out with a understanding smile: “But anyway, I never get angry. » However, he was not far from it on Tuesday May 7, in front of the gates of Sciences Po Paris, when he had a lively exchange with the La France insoumise (LFI) deputy for Val-de-Marne, Louis Boyard.

While around a hundred pro-Palestinian students were still gathered, the “rebellious” MP accused the LR candidate of being detached to the destiny of the inhabitants of Gaza, whereas the latter in return denounced the political restoration of LFI: “We have come to say that our French universities do not belong to the extreme left. »

The three-minute sequence stirred up social networks and boosted the morale of the troops on the right. Several elected officials even believe they detect the spark capable of igniting a campaign considered serious, but too “good student”, just like the 38-year-old MEP. Rue Saint-Guillaume, the philosophy professor challenged the “Bellamy get out” and performed on velvet by praising the authority expensive to the appropriate towards “leftist and Islamist entryism” at work within the college in response to him.

“It transformed in five years”

Did he take sure recommendation from these near him, he who says he’s allergic to spectacle politics? “François-Xavier has the politeness of intelligence, advances Agnès Evren, her number 2 during the Europeans in 2019. But we don't see him enough with a knife between his teeth. When we oppose, we must not be afraid of offending the other. »

Nor to rush his nature a little. Candidate Bellamy may have been scouring the country and the plateaus since January, but his list is still stagnating around 7% in the polls and some Cassandre LR imagine a plunge below 5%, synonymous with the disappearance of the French right from the European Parliament. The person concerned wishes to take up the gauntlet after the 8.48% in 2019, experienced as an industrial accident. The incident cost Laurent Wauquiez the presidency of LR, when “Fix” (as he’s known as by these near him) was pushing politeness to apologize to the social gathering's political workplace.

His detractors noticed it as definitive proof of a lamb misplaced amongst wolves.. But since, the very courteous Versaillais would have, via his mandate as MEP, acquired a style for fight. “Politics has an archaic dimension. François-Xavier in all probability didn’t perceive this in the beginningtheorizes the senator from Vendée and dependable supporter, Bruno Retailleau. But he reworked himself in 5 years and understood that politics integrates this steadiness of energy as a major language. »

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