What fly has piqued Laurent Wauquiez? | EUROtoday

On Apr 10, 2025

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QSo did Laurent Wauquiez piqued in order that he suggests to exile the “dangerous foreigners under OQTF” (obligation to depart French territory) within the subarctic areas of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, 4,000 km from Paris? A territory which nonetheless deserved the fatherland by rallying in December 1941 free France and to which General de Gaulle, patron saint of the French proper, who had not forgotten it, visited as a tribute in July 1967. The deputy of Haute-Loire solely made the reality of the previous and partisan political historical past in reality. And there may be, on the proper, an intangible rule: a marketing campaign for the presidency of the celebration is definitely not received within the middle.

Thus Nicolas Sarkozy resumes orders from the UMP on the finish of 2014 with 64.5 % of the votes within the first spherical, towards Bruno Le Maire and Hervé Mariton, after an inside battle the place his ultra-right positions are stamped. Let us consider it: elimination of state medical support, “repeal” of the Taubira regulation on homosexual marriage, threatens to depart Schengen if the system is just not reformed.

Same educating in 2022, when Eric Ciotti began to assault the presidency of the Republicans towards Bruno Retailleau and Aurélien Pradié. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, who got here a number of months earlier on the high of the primary spherical of the Party Congress for the presidential inauguration, had damaged by proposing, within the columns of Pointto open a “French guantanamo” for terrorists and to take away virtually all inheritance tax. Despite – or due to – his proper -hand line, he prevailed with 53.7 % within the second spherical towards the then Senator of Vendée. Sarkozy like Ciotti – since rallied to the RN – know their proper -wing activists. And there may be one factor that members hate all of them: lukewarm water and the sensation that insurance policies are condemned to helplessness.

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The timing chosen by Wauquiez to grant this shock interview Jdnews does nothing, both, at random both. The ATMs LR have till April 17, the final interval, to affix and thus take part within the vote. After this era, the electoral physique will likely be largely frozen for the election of the celebration chief, scheduled for May 17 and 18. Wauquiez’s shot, wanting like a “big red that is staining” – to make use of a favourite expression lent to Nicolas Sarkozy -, due to this fact seems at a wink supported by the 80,000 militants already inserted and to the proper -wing sympathizers who nonetheless hesitate to affix them, earlier than the cube are thrown.

Any challenger whether or not the elected consultant of Haute-Loire, his followers wish to consider that the video games should not made to the Minister of the Interior, favourite on paper and supported by the overwhelming majority of tenors of the celebration. In the entourage of Wauquiez, who leads a affected person marketing campaign within the area as near activists, we might even wish to consider that the inner battle has simply taken a strategic flip.

“Trumpization”

Note that the proper doesn’t have the monopoly of the height guarantees, to not say extra. The left additionally deserves, in some ways, trials in electoral demagogy. It is just not forbidden to assume that François Hollande carried the presidential election of 2012 on a colourful promise: tax super-chess to the tune of 75 %. Remoked by the Constitutional Council after its election, this proposal allowed him to widen the hole with Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a vital time of the marketing campaign the place the polls tightened.

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More broadly, Laurent Wauquiez, aspiring candidate for the Élysée, does the next evaluation: Marine Le Pen being very possible eradicated from the subsequent presidential race to have, mentioned justice, diverted together with his celebration 4.1 million euros in European funds, the republican proper should search her voters if she desires to prevail.

Finally, it’s clear {that a} wind of Trumpization is blowing on French political life. Retailleau as Wauquiez contemplate that the explanations for the US president’s well-liked victory should be analyzed. Indeed, past his outrageousness and his vulgarity, Donald Trump sends the message that public officers can, if they need, overturn the desk. It is the entire poison of Wauquiez’s proposal, who involves press the supposed Achilles heel of his Rival Rival. Which could be sentenced to a coverage of small steps and the Ministry of the Verb by the absence of a majority within the Assembly and its membership of the Bayrou authorities. Beware, nonetheless, to not break the desk in passing and to not injury an already very discredited political phrase extra.

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