In Paris, Laurent Wauquiez’s assist in Rachida Dati to take town again to the left | EUROtoday

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The president of the Les Républicains group at the National Assembly, Laurent Wauquiez, in Palais-Bourbon, in Paris, January 22, 2025.

Last week, the entourage of Laurent Wauquiez offered the wick. In the battle, within the Paris Federation, for the election to the presidency of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering, May 17 and 18, “A big job will be done to say all the good that we think of Rachida Dati”. Promise held Monday April 28. “We have absolutely the responsibility to win Paris. We are fortunate to have a candidate that I’ve all the time supported who’s Rachida Dati »stated the boss of LR deputies at a public assembly within the seventhe District of Paris, the one whose Minister of Culture is mayor. And he hears “Do everything” To do it.

Even once we need the defender of peripheral France and rural areas, Paris is properly value a political mass for the deputy of Haute-Loire, but additionally former (good) pupil of the Lycée Victor-Duruy, neighbor of the Brasserie the place he held a gathering. If the candidate likes to spotlight his Auvergne roots, he measures the significance of the capital, the principle LR federation with greater than 10,000 members and which is leaning – like its president Agnès Evrens – for his rival, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. In town, the conservative liberal speech of the Vendéen appeals to a bourgeois voters, particularly within the 15e16e and 17e Boroughs, the place 60 % of LR members are concentrated.

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