Fort of multiple supports, Bruno Retailleau launches in his turn in the race for the presidency of LR. With our colleagues from Figaro, he claims in particular to be a candidate in the absence of Laurent Wauquiez. “I consider that Laurent Wauquiez had all the qualities to chair our movement but, in his absence, many asked me to introduce myself, he assures. I’m not lacking in responsibility, but I’m not a man to shy away from. “And to affirm:” Yes, I will be a candidate for the presidency of the Republicans. »
The current boss of the LR senators is indeed garnering support in the race for the head of the party, with, a little earlier this Friday, that of François-Xavier Bellamy in the columns of the Point and Senator Stéphane Le Rudulier, former spokesperson for Éric Ciotti. His presence in the Senate is also, according to him, an advantage: “That the president of the first right-wing parliamentary group also chairs the party is a guarantee of coherence and clarity,” he believes.
“I am not a candidate against anyone”
Opposed, for the moment, to Aurélien Pradié and Éric Ciotti, the candidacy of Virginie Calmels having been rejected, Bruno Retailleau wishes to reassure. “I am not a candidate against anyone. Éric Ciotti and Aurélien Pradié have every right to present themselves, he explains. But this election must not turn into a face-to-face between two camps that would play one-upmanship. […]. I want to go beyond the past and put the right in battle order for the fights of tomorrow. »
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As for the political line to adopt in the face of a weakened majority that could need the right, Bruno Retailleau believes: “That we do not filibuster, it is common sense. But we will never be macronists. […]. We must show that politics is still worth something, that there are still men and women of honor who are not ready to trade their convictions for ambitions. Bruno Retailleau also displays the ambition to seek out voters who would have fled, by the right, during the last presidential election. “I will always reach out to the voters of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour, assures the senator, because I will never resign myself to the fact that sincerely right-wing French people have left us. »