Bruno Retailleau broadcasts his candidacy for the presidency of the Les Républicains occasion | EUROtoday

In a letter addressed to the activists, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, introduced, Wednesday, February 12, his candidacy for the presidency of the Les Républicains Party (LR). “Today, I want to do for my party what I do at the head of my ministry: to speak true and act quickly”stated the minister, in his message despatched on Monday.

“While it was given for dead, the right now regains colors and vigorcontinues Mr. Retailleau. Today, while the country is in a serious situation, the right is listened to again. And that’s why tomorrow she can win. »» But, first, “We should (…) give an incarnation to our motion ”he says, promising to not be “What[’il n’est] not ” and to not “Defend[e] what[’il] Don’t think “.

Bruno Retailleau, whose ranking has been arrange within the polls since his arrival in Beauvau in September within the authorities of ex-Prime Minister Michel Barnier, despatched his message earlier than an important assembly on Monday, of the LR political workplace, which should repair the date of the congress to designate its president, a place to which Laurent Wauquiez may additionally come up.

“I don’t want new tears”

The boss of the fitting -wing deputies had warned every week in the past throughout a dinner nose to nose with the Minister of the Interior on a possible “War of devastating chiefs” If he introduced his candidacy for the president of the occasion, a place which may function a springboard to use for the presidential election. During this interview, Laurent Wauquiez, who additionally targets the top of the occasion to place himself on the rails for 2027, requested the Minister to respect a ” agreement ” Past between them: “It’s as much as you to embody the fitting to the federal government, it is as much as me to rebuild our political household. »»

In his letter, Mr. Retailleau tried to reassure: “I don’t want new tears and new injuries in our party”he wrote, assuring that he wouldn’t lend himself “Not at the game of little sentences” and that he would say “No against [ses] competitors “. But for the entourage of Mr. Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau took the “Heavy responsibility for opening a war of chiefs” proper. “It would be preferable that he could fully devote himself to his action in Beauvau, because France needs it, and let Laurent Wauquiez carry out the mission of reconstruction of the party which was entrusted to him”added the supply.

The Minister of the Interior, who had already broke his head of the occasion a little bit over two years in the past, had bowed within the second spherical in opposition to Eric Ciotti, who left his duties after doing alliance in June with The National Rally (RN) within the legislative elections, leaving the vacant submit for nearly 9 months. In his letter to the activists, the place he salutes the current victories of the fitting on the city corridor of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne) and through a partial legislative in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), Mr. Retailleau known as for “Act quickly”believing that“A new dissolution [était] possible and that he [leur fallait] quickly [se] put in battle order ».