Scattered like a puzzle. Fifteen months earlier than the presidential election, the events of the middle and the precise, which have ruled haphazardly for the reason that dissolution of June 2024, should not planning collectively to overcome the Elysée. The candidacy of the president of the Republicans (LR), Bruno Retailleau, on February 12, foreshadows the spectacle of disunity feared by sure elected officers from Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem and LR.
The candidacy of the chief of the precise comes along with these from the previous presidential majority: the mayor of Le Havre, Edouard Philippe, is already campaigning for Horizons, and at Renaissance, Gabriel Attal plans to launch after the municipal elections. The listing of contenders for Emmanuel Macron’s succession might develop even longer by the summer season: Xavier Bertrand, the president of the Hauts-de-France area, in open battle with Bruno Retailleau and his right-wing line, desires of himself as an “outsider”, when the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, says “to think” for a potential candidacy.
Which doesn’t forestall the latter from warning of the chance of an electoral rout. “If there are several candidates from the right and the center, we will not be in the presidential election in the second round, and therefore we will let our voters choose between two extremes and they will blame us”, he mentioned on RTL on February 15. Like him, many elected officers from the precise wing of the presidential camp consider that this profusion of candidates contravenes all electoral logic. Because, within the tripartite political panorama, the central bloc and the precise, caught between the left and the acute proper, share a part of their electoral base.
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