Xavier Bertrand has always said he wanted to stop politics in the event of failure in the presidential election. However, his political life takes a second wind with the campaign of Valérie Pécresse, in which he participates closely. What predict a passage to Matignon for the president of Hauts-de-France?
Xavier Bertrand is one of the most fervent supporters of Valérie Pécresse in her presidential campaign. Arrived in fourth position at the end of the congress of the right, the president of Hauts-de-France has accepted his defeat and his commitment : support the winner until the end. In a portrait published by Opinion, this Monday, January 24, we discover the new turn taken by the political life of Xavier Bertrand. “These last years, he kept telling me that he would stop politics if he failed in the presidential election, that he no longer accepted the idea of obeying someone else“, reports an elected official from the North, close to Xavier Bertrand. And yet…
It’s a real turnaround. He does not stop politics but on the contrary starts again with a vengeance. We France, its political banner, turned into a political movement, while that he became a leading actor in Valérie Pécresse’s campaign, who entrusted him with the mission of recovering the vote of the “Republic of the Territories“. In other words, the popular vote. This new position therefore propels him to the top of the list of possible Prime Ministers of candidate LR in the event of victory, according to the liberal daily. “To be Prime Minister, never!“, he had nevertheless entrusted to this same elected official. Today, the answer no longer seems so definitive.
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A renewed ambition
The presidential election will therefore not send Xavier Bertrand to the Elysée, never mind, there are other ways to weigh in political life. To begin with, he intends to weigh well within his political family, The Republicans. He had returned his card in 2017, after the election of Laurent Wauquiez at the head of the party, but that is in the past. Since last October, the president of Hauts-de-France has been back and does not intend to stop there. His political movement has joined forces with LR and aims to “carry high the social Gaullism“.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
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