Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez
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09:11, September 02, 2022
This weekend, the Republicans are meeting for their political comeback in Angers. The opportunity for the candidates for the presidency of the party to affirm their ideas and especially their common desire for renewal within the Republicans. The party wants to regain its place on the political spectrum.
After the NUPES and Renaissance last week, the political returns continue. Today it is the turn of the Republicans, gathered in Angers on the initiative of young LRs. An appointment which brings together almost all the executives of the party, just a few months before the election of the future president of the party. The candidates are also present and all aspire to a profound change internally. If Éric Ciotti, supporter of an uninhibited right, is for the moment alone in the running, the conservative Bruno Retailleau, should start the race this weekend, while the candidacy of Aurélien Pradié, supporter of a right more social soon.
“Change everything from floor to ceiling”
Three different profiles but one and the same ambition: “Change everything from floor to ceiling”. Each candidate wants to renew the ideological corpus of the Republicans, a bloodless party after three consecutive defeats in the presidential election. This weekend, several round tables are organized and are devoted to themes deemed too little invested by the right in recent years, such as the famous question of purchasing power, ecology or even the way to win back the urban electorate. .
These round tables are an opportunity to compare points of view and put forward new ideas. “We can no longer continue to live on the restoration of the double penalty or the tax exemption of overtime,” confides a framework. The right is therefore in search of novelties, both in terms of ideas and of embodiment. The task of the next president of the Republicans is heavy: to revive a party whose political space has been considerably reduced in five years, suffocated between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
A duel erupts
A final duel seems to be asserting itself between Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau who maintain very good relations and share the same liberal conservative line. Both claim the legacy of François Fillon but the curator Bruno Retailleau answered the call of several executives who fear the potential election of Éric Ciotti, considered too divisive. The Vendéen has already received this week the unofficial support of Gérard Larcher and will therefore represent a credible alternative to the Niçois.
If the campaign should be played without a bad shot, everyone is clearly going to win. And to do this, one of the keys lies in the number of voters. Bruno Retailleau certainly leaves with a significant delay, the LR federation of Vendée being very poorly provided compared to that of the Alpes-Maritimes. But the president of the senators LR can count on the precious file of militants of Republican Force, the former micro-party of François Fillon. It then had more than 300,000 militants. So many potential voters that will have to be convinced to join and vote for Bruno Retailleau.