LR continues to be on the lookout for directions for selecting its candidate | EUROtoday

At the Les Républicains (LR) get together, the seek for a champion for 2027 evokes sporting metaphors. “We are in the preliminary phase of the Champions League, the one where we resolve the question of who the party will support”summarizes an advisor to Bruno Retailleau. Candidate since February 12 for the subsequent presidential election, will the boss of LR must undergo one or two rounds earlier than showing earlier than the French in spring 2027? “It is possible to imagine a closed primary, followed by an open primary”argued the senator from Vendée in an interview with The Voice of the North in November 2025. Understand, an inside warm-up spherical in opposition to different LR contenders earlier than a major prolonged to your entire central block.

Unsurprisingly, Laurent Wauquiez doesn’t validate this format. “How many primaries should we organize? A first for the honorary division, then one for Ligue 2, and finally one for the Champions League? »quips Bruno Retailleau’s rival in an interview with Sunday newspaperFebruary 21. The leader of the LR deputies defends another approach. Build first “a common program of the right in the spring” to allow “bring together all those who share the same ideas” And “bring out a natural candidate”. And if not, “we will have to go through a primary of the broader right”.

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