“Bruno Retailleau galvanizes his troops by waving the same mirage as his predecessors, that of a right capable of re -xisting by itself” | EUROtoday

Lhe Party Les Républicains (LR) has a brand new president, which is nicely elected. By acquiring, Sunday, May 18, 74.3 % of members’ votes, Bruno Retailleau not solely gained an indeniable victory towards Laurent Wauquiez, however he additionally created a dynamic by overthrowing the one who, since 2017, noticed himself because the pure candidate of his camp with out managing to carry it collectively or create a craze in opinion. The shock impact attributable to the Minister of the Interior, who embodied for ten years a senatorial line each agency on his values ​​and open to compromise with the middle, has been the primary excellent news for this celebration for a really very long time.

And but, on the underside nothing is settled, neither management, nor the road, nor the alliances. The narrowness of the themes addressed throughout the marketing campaign – safety, immigration, work -, whereas the world order is totally upset by the return to the White House of Donald Trump, the shortage of substantive distinction between the 2 opponents, who portrayed a France with hearth and blood to overvalue the id and safety themes, present how a lot the republican proper, which has as soon as embodied the alternation. The celebration has solely 120,000 members, in keeping with figures superior by administration, and 98,100 voters, in keeping with the outcomes of the May 17 and 18.

Since the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2012, what stays of the UMP (the outdated identify of LR) skilled a descent into hell punctuated by beautiful episodes: the accusations of dishonest which closed, in November of the identical yr, the match Jean-François Copé-François Fillon for the president of the celebration; the Bygmalion case; The missed return of the previous mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) towards the backdrop of multiplication of authorized implications; the torpedo, by the 2016 main, of the Alliance Sarkozy-Fillon-Juppe which structured a majority within the celebration; The elimination of François Fillon on the night of the primary spherical of the 2017 presidential election; The pitiful rating of Valérie Pécresse 5 years later (4.8 % of the votes solid); The betrayal of Eric Ciotti, elected president of LR in 2022 to be excluded two years later, after having been the promoter of an electoral alliance with the National Rally (RN).

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