The Republicans elect their new president with the Elysée Palace on-line in sight | EUROtoday

After three months of marketing campaign, the greater than 120,000 members of the Republicans (LR) are deciding, on Sunday, May 18, the 2 candidates for the presidency of their get together, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez, an inner election which might propel the winner within the race on the Elysée.

The members, who started to vote on Saturday afternoon on the web on Saturday afternoon, have till 6 p.m. to designate the one who took the vacant submit because the former boss, Eric Ciotti, selected virtually a 12 months in the past to ally with the National Rally (RN) in the course of the anticipated legislative elections. At midday, the participation charge was 63 %, based on the High Authority which organizes the poll. It is the secretary basic of the get together, Annie Genevard, additionally Minister of Agriculture, who will announce the outcomes on the finish of the afternoon on the Parisian headquarters of the Republicans.

If Bruno Retailleau is given favourite towards Laurent Wauquiez, the voting system makes the outcome unsure, nonetheless: the variety of members has virtually tripled in the course of the marketing campaign, going from 43,859 to 121,617, with out it being attainable to find out who will profit from these recruitments, led drum beating by the 2 candidates.

“Retaille advantage, but beautiful Wauquiez campaign”synthesizes a former member of the Republicans who is aware of his former political household nicely. Mr. Wauquiez is assured: “I will create the surprise”he mentioned to Figaro.

A big victory would give the winner a weight argument to embark on the race on the Elysée on the proper. A slender success, quite the opposite, would complicate the duty to impose itself on the face of rivals like Edouard Philippe, the favourite of polls, even helps by Bruno Retailleau, just like the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, or the mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, who ask for open primaries on the proper, whereas the Vendéen desires to restrict the member of the LR get together.

Very proper -wing proposals

Laurent Wauquiez doesn’t need to hear about open major on both and has continued to wave the hazard of a “Dilution of the right in Macronie” If its president had a double cap with Beauvau, evoking “Noise” On an electoral settlement with Edouard Philippe. The deputy of Haute-Loire additionally took the lead, asking for a return match with Bruno Retailleau subsequent 12 months to designate the candidate LR on the Elysée.

“Grace, let’s not immediately have presidential obsessions that cost us dear! »»replied the Vendéen, who undertook to stay in Beauvau if he prevailed, assuming being “A political minister, not a techno minister”.

Within the common base, we closely follow the election of the president of LR, a party who came close to the disappearance during the departure of Eric Ciotti and who resumed colors after entering the government, in September 2024, with one of his own in Matignon, Michel Barnier, censored three months later by the left and the RN.

Its former spokesperson, the Renaissance MP Maud Bregeon, wished on Sunday on CNews and Europe1 that “The future president of the LR undertakes to keep up the unit of the central block”seemingly leaning for Mr. Retailleau than for Mr. Wauquiez who “Look extra on the aspect of reconquest”. Bias clearly assumed by the deputy Horizons Frédéric Valletoux, who criticized the “Campaign for nothing” by Mr. Wauquiez, a “Man of techniques” of which “We didn’t perceive what the concepts have been”.

An offensive tone already adopted the day before during a meeting in Marseille by his party leader, Edouard Philippe, who reserved his attacks for the deputy of Haute-Loire. “The French will not be fooled by those that make Trumpism within the little ft by dreaming of resuscitating the jail of the Count of Monte Cristo in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon”quipped Edouard Philippe, in a tackle to Laurent Wauquiez, who proposed sending the island on this island “Dangerous foreigners” subject to an obligation to leave the territory (OQTF).

Laurent Wauquiez replied from Puy-en-Velay, where he went to the LR permanence of the department to vote on a computer: “What makes me joyful is that he understood that I’d not do in any respect on the identical time. »»

The boss of the LR deputies fired all wooden throughout this marketing campaign with very proper -wing proposals. Erecting in “Model for the right” The Italian extremely -conservative Giorgia Meloni, he pleaded for a rally from the proper starting from the Keeper of the Seals, the previous LR Gérald Darmanin, to the EEM Zemmouriste Sarah Knafo (excluding RN and its allies).