Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez don’t want a “war of chefs” however show their variations for the presidency of LR | EUROtoday

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Laurent Wauquiez and Bruno Retailleau in front of Matignon, in Paris on September 19, 2024.

A confrontation for the presidency of the Republicans (LR) however not a “Chief war”. Just a few days after their candidacy announcement, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez displayed their want to keep away from a “Bloody match”within the phrases of the Minister of the Interior, in The ParisianSaturday February 15. “Differences in background, temperament, incarnation are not resolved in brutality but in the ballot boxes”estimated the Vendée elected official.

Regretting for his half the candidacy of Mr. Retailleau, guaranteeing that“There was more clever to do” for the fitting that “Tear” your self “Mr. Wauquiez also displayed his wish to rule out any ” conflict “during this campaign, Sunday evening BFM-TV.

To stand out from his competitor – the only one for the moment – Laurent Wauquiez said he would fight against “Assistantship” and the ” work “ its campaign themes. And this while Mr. Retailleau “Mainly talks about safety, immigration Said Mr. Wauquiez on Sunday night.

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“We have a social system to be rethought and that is one of the commitments that will be mine at the head of our party”added Mr. Wauquiez. “I consider that for the right to be reached by the French, it must express themselves on the sovereign, on immigration. She must also treat (…) The injustice of a social protection system that no longer recognizes people who work or who have worked all their lives ”, insisted the one who was already castigating in 2011, in a controversial formula, “The drifts of the assistantship”real “Cancer of French society”.

“For me, that is the second main downside in France, there may be too many assistantship”, added the deputy for Haute-Loire, also evoking “Public expense” And “Bureaucracy”.

No “bloody match”

For his part, Bruno Retailleau affirms in the interview with Parisian Wanting to rely on its action at the Ministry of the Interior. “I can see that my firmness policy in migration matters, drug trafficking, of the fight against Islamism seduces to the left voters. We arrive at the end of a cycle. Time is no longer with lukewarm and rustin water ”he defends.

He says he wants to address too “To all those that need work to pay moderately than assistantship, that the State reforms and stops making the pockets of the French, that the varsity transmitted data and French pleasure”. And concerning the party itself, its objective, he assures, is to “Find a friendliness, collegiality, and that activists are not thought of as room filler or leaflet distributors”. “We want a whole refoundation of LR and modernize our software program, it’s this obsession with the presidential election that prevented us from rethinking our identification, our social undertaking”he regrets.

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But for Mr. Wauquiez, the Minister of the Interior will have “Little free time” To take care of the party, contrary to what Mr. Retailleau claims, because “Delinquency doesn’t cease at 6 pm” neither “The weekend”. Place Beauvau is “No doubt some of the demanding jobs within the authorities”and represents “A full -time work”attacked Mr. Wauquiez.

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According to the latter, Mr. Retailleau is also forced by “Government solidarity” which would prevent him from having “A really free and really impartial phrase” as required “The present interval”according to Mr. Wauquiez. Gold, “The occasion president, tomorrow, he should be capable of categorical themselves very strongly”he pleads. In response, Mr. Retailleau had assured Saturday in The Parisian that he was not “Not a person to place [s]convictions in [s]a pocket “.

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