The executives of the Les Républicains party let go after the decried performance of Valérie Pécresse during her meeting at the Zénith, two months before the first round of the Presidential election.
Many of them predict a certain absence of candidate LR in the second round. Some, like Laurent Wauquiez, would even be particularly virulent.
“She will finish fourth and again, if (Jean-Luc) Mélenchon does not go up too much”, would have predicted the president of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region, as revealed by Le Canard enchaîné in its edition of this Wednesday.
“All you have to do is bend down to pick up the party”
“Then, there will only be more to bend down to pick up the party, it is not this idiot of (Xavier) Bertrand who will prevent me from it”, he would have continued according to the weekly.
Words that would have the merit of being clear on the post-Presidential intentions of Laurent Wauquiez.
The president of the AURA Region had given up in August 2021 to run after consulting many elected officials, from Laurent Isnard to Édouard Balladur.
Contacted by Le Progrès, Laurent Wauquiez’s entourage initially did not wish to react, before qualifying this sentence as “pure invention”.