L’ex-number 2 of LR Virginie Calmels, surprise candidate for the presidency of the party, estimated on Saturday that it would be premature to appoint the right-wing candidate for the 2027 presidential election now, and that there was no “more legitimate candidate” than another.
She thus stood out from her rival Éric Ciotti, the only other declared candidate for the presidency of LR, who has already supported Laurent Wauquiez for 2027. “Laurent Wauquiez is not a candidate for the presidency for the party, so Éric Ciotti does it in his place”, first noted on France 2 this representative of liberal sensibility within LR, adding that “we must not nominate the candidate for 2027 now”. “Why would some be more legitimate than others? I see talents in our political family”, she continued, citing Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse, David Lisnard and perhaps “others who will emerge in the period”.
Virginie Calmels also returned to her dismissal in June 2018 by Laurent Wauquiez, then party boss, who was in open conflict with her number 2. “I came up against Laurent Wauquiez on the line, because my subject was that we do not take the rhetoric of the National Rally and that we do not become a proxy for the far right, ”she recalled.
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“I come to try to kick in the anthill of the Republicans, because I am very worried, as a person who is from a Republican right, from a right of government, to see what this right is in gradually becoming,” she argued. The Republicans will elect their next president on December 3 and 4 (with possibly a second round on December 10 and 11), to succeed Christian Jacob, whose interim is provided by Annie Genevard.
Pierre Jouvet for a single candidacy on the left in 2027
On the left, PS spokesman Pierre Jouvet hopes for a candidacy from all of the “united left” for the 2027 presidential election and “does not close the door” to a common Nupes list for the 2024 European elections. that in 2027 the left be united and united behind a single candidacy for the presidential election, because what I wish for my country, for the French women and men who need us, is that we win”, explained on France Inter the elected representative of the Drôme. “We are in front of the last station before the desert, the next victory is undoubtedly the National Rally and Marine Le Pen if we do nothing”, he warned from Blois where the university is held. summer of the PS.
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Regarding the possibility of an alliance of Nupes for the deadline closer to the European elections of 2024, proposed to its partners by LFI, “we do not refuse anything in principle, but an electoral agreement is first of all an in-depth discussion”, repeated Pierre Jouvet. “Everyone knows our differences and everyone knows that especially with La France insoumise, but also with the Communist Party, we have fundamental differences on the European approach”, he recalled.