Bruno Retailleau broadcasts his candidacy for the 2027 presidential election | EUROtoday

The president of the Les Républicains (LR) get together, Bruno Retailleau, warned Thursday February 12 that he “ [s]is about to declare [sa] candidacy for the presidential election » of 2027, in a message sent to several parliamentarians from his party and consulted by Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“It’s a decision that I have thought about a lot”says the previous Minister of the Interior, who judges that “the time has come to [sa] political family to show the French a new path, focused on order, prosperity and French pride”.

“I am ready to carry out this project but this adventure can only be collective”writes the boss of LR once more. “I need you, your support and your personal involvement in a campaign which must first bring together our political family, its members and its sympathizers”he provides to the parliamentarians of his get together.

Bruno Retailleau will make an announcement on social networks at 6 p.m. earlier than showing on TF1’s 8 p.m. information on Thursday night.

“Air hole”

Since he left the federal government in October 2025 after being moved by the presence of Bruno Le Maire within the first government offered by Sébastien Lecornu, the previous tenant of Place Beauvau was in “an air gap”as considered one of his kinfolk acknowledges.

But this announcement, just a few weeks earlier than the municipal elections, made to relaunch it, dangers additional sharpening the rivalries between the potential LR candidates for the Elysée: the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, is already within the working; David Lisnard, the president of the Association of Mayors of France, promised to go if there was no major; former Prime Minister Michel Barnier poses as a unifier of the correct and the middle.

For his half, the boss of LR deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, pleads for a major starting from the macronist Gérald Darmanin to Sarah Knafo, of the far-right Reconquête! get together.

Bruno Retailleau selected to proclaim himself a candidate even earlier than understanding the proposals of the working group that he himself had fashioned to outline the tactic of designating the LR candidate. They are anticipated by the tip of the month.