Bruno Retailleau, now a candidate for the presidency of LR, launches an inevitable “war of chefs” on the appropriate | EUROtoday

At Bruno Retailleau, ambition at all times takes the identical path. Before beginning, the Minister of the Interior has “Need to be pushed by others”acknowledges a liked one. Wednesday, February 12, the previous senator from Vendée formalized his candidacy for the presidency of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering in a letter despatched to the activists. “The right is listened to again and that is why tomorrow, it can win, he wrote in this document. I am deeply convinced. But we must first, and without delay, give an incarnation to our movement, to give it a new momentum ”he writes like this.

At 64, he aspires to become this incarnation and assumes – most likely – challenge the president of the deputies LR, Laurent Wauquiez, during a next congress scheduled for the spring. His entourage pressed him to take the plunge to take advantage of his new notoriety acquired Place Beauvau. Impossible to also miss the headlight calls in this sense of certain tenors of the right, such as the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher.

In the fall of 2024, the party offensive was not yet an option. It has become it with the weeks, the friendly pressure of some relatives and also favored by a degraded relationship with Laurent Wauquiez. “Bruno at all times has the identical motion at first, he says he’s nicely the place he’s and doesn’t challenge himself on the following recreation”advances those around him, and to take as an example his taking of the General Council of Vendée in 2010 (against his mentor Philippe de Villiers) or his surprise election as head of the UMP senators (the old name of LR), four years later, Faced with the two favorites, Roger Karoutchi and Gérard Longuet.

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