Bruno Retailleau pronounces his candidacy for the 2027 presidential election and denounces the “abuses of the rule of law” | EUROtoday

He lastly acquired began. Bruno Retailleau introduced, Thursday February 12, his candidacy for the 2027 presidential election, and started to stipulate the start of a program across the themes which are pricey to him, beginning with immigration and “order”.

“I wanted to inform you personally that I am preparing to declare my candidacy for the presidential election” : it was to start with with this message to every parliamentarian of his occasion that the president of the Republicans (LR) put an finish to the suspense.

The announcement had been anticipated for a number of days. So right here he’s formally launched within the race for the Elysée, at 65 years previous. “It’s a decision that I have thought about a lot”added the previous inside minister. Bruno Retailleau says he thinks “that the time has come to [sa] political family to show the French a new path, focused on order, prosperity and French pride”.

“I do not want to be President of the Republic out of obsession with power but out of a sense of duty”he continued in a speech broadcast dwell on social networks.

Saying “refuse to let [le] country in the state it is in today »he depicted “a France that is sinking [et] which is fading, in an increasingly threatening world” and estimated that, “to confront the disorders of the world, [le] country will first have to put its affairs in order”. “I will be the president of order, justice and French pride”he mentioned.

Bruno Retailleau promised on Thursday to “submit several major pieces of legislation directly by referendum” if he had been elected, specifically for “drastically reduce immigration”. “We must no longer govern against the people”he mentioned in a speech broadcast dwell.

“Drifts from the rule of law”

In addition to immigration, the boss of LR additionally promised referendums for “initiate a real revolution of [la] criminal justice » and for “restore the primacy [au] national law when it comes to protecting [les] fundamental interests » French.

Resolved to “impose everywhere the authority of the Republic”the previous Minister of the Interior assured that he “won’t again down[t] not “ And “will not give in[t] not, neither to violence, nor to political correctness, nor to the abuses of the rule of law which has turned against the right of the French to live in peace and security”.

These referendum projects, however, risk clashing with the Constitution: neither immigration nor justice are currently within the scope of the referendum.

The boss of LR also intends “to refound [le] social model »which will imply “save money [et] choices ». For this reason, he “assumes giving priority to the France of honest people and to work rather than assistance”posed in “protector of the France of workers, not of the France of profiteers”.

Bruno Retailleau also showed his intention to “put back in its rightful place” a state which “cannot spend more than he earns”while swearing to “relaunch a major family policy”.

“I won’t promise anything I can’t keep”insisted the candidate, who also wants “reorient the protection of [l’]environment on an ecology of progress » and wish a “refoundation through merit and freedom” of the school which has become, according to him, “a machine to reproduce inequalities”.

This announcement, a few weeks before the municipal elections, risks further sharpening rivalries between potential LR candidates for the Elysée: the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, is already in the running; David Lisnard, the president of the Association of Mayors of France, promised to go if there was no primary; former Prime Minister Michel Barnier poses as a unifier of the right and the center.

For his part, the boss of LR deputies, Laurent Wauquiez, pleads for a primary ranging from the macronist Gérald Darmanin to Sarah Knafo, of the far-right Reconquête! party.

Bruno Retailleau chose to proclaim himself a candidate even before knowing the proposals of the working group that he himself had formed to define the method of designating the LR candidate. They are expected by the end of the month.