“For ten years, the Republican right has been torn between the center and the extreme right without managing to find its point of balance” | EUROtoday

Lhe very lengthy interview given on Friday February 13 by Bruno Retailleau, the president of the Les Républicains (LR) social gathering, to Figaro Magazine to accompany his declaration of candidacy for the 2027 presidential election is a mannequin of its variety. All the themes rehashed by the National Rally (RN) – lack of sovereignty, public powerlessness, pronatalist decline, migratory hazard, disaster of authority – are methodically offered.

The questioning of the rule of legislation, outlined by the previous boss of the LR group within the Senate throughout his earlier interventions, is confirmed and detailed. Under the pretext of returning energy to the folks and circumscribing that of judges, the broadening of the scope of the referendum to questions of immigration, justice and safety is claimed, as is the primacy of nationwide legislation over European legislation. “A copy and paste of our proposals”joked on Sunday on France Inter, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, the deputy president of the RN group within the National Assembly.

After having acquired a sure notoriety by changing into Minister of the Interior within the governments of Michel Barnier then of François Bayrou (2024-2025), Bruno Retailleau unabashedly performs the function of breaking with Macronism within the hope of retaining a right-wing citizens more and more delicate to the sirens of the far proper. Faced with the weakening of the RN which is not going to know, earlier than July 7, the date of the enchantment judgment of the trial of European parliamentary assistants, which of Marine Le Pen or Jordan Bardella will signify it within the presidential election, the chief of LR is main an uninhibited ideological offensive combining financial liberalism, societal conservatism and authorized sovereignty. A cocktail which claims to be severe, however opens Pandora’s field by way of democratic functioning and the connection with the European Union.

Lack of consensus

For ten years, the Republican proper has continued to radicalize. The evolution of the protagonists of the 2016 major or their heirs confirms this. It would not happen to Edouard Philippe to marketing campaign on the theme of“happy identity” as Alain Juppé, his mentor, did then.

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