HAS a few months before the European elections, decisive for Europe and France, the Republican right is lucky to have a candidate who will have already strongly defended the interests of our country in Strasbourg and Brussels. It is precisely in this way, by demonstrating what it alone can bring to the French, that the Republican right will be able to regain its place.
Today, the challenge for the right is to expand the space it deserves between Macronism and Marinism. How can we be neither the auxiliaries of the former nor the couriers of the latter? How can we regain the dynamics and leadership of a great governing force? What is now the added value of the right, its originality? Why would the French be interested again in his proposals? How can we make them clearly perceive its profound differences with the two hegemonic parties of today, the National Rally and Renaissance? Where is the right going, which claims to be republican?
Except for very rare moments, this right to which I belong has only ever governed through the union of the right and the center, more or less broad, always necessary. De Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard, Chirac, Sarkozy: all cultivated it despite the difficulties. This union remains essential. It is natural, because to different degrees we are all for freedom, order, the market economy, financial rigor, simplification, trust, reduction in compulsory contributions, secularism, control of migratory flows , decentralization, Europe, national independence, sustainable development reconciling ecology and economy, organized free trade, solidarity with the most vulnerable, social dialogue, safeguarding the health system, reform of the national education, the promotion of the value of work, the revival of nuclear energy…
This is why Jacques Chirac made room for the centrists during the constitution of the UMP [Union pour un mouvement populaire] in 2002. This grouping, the legacy of which the senatorial majority now assumes, was preferable to the current situation where the central parties have joined a Renaissance list.
Back to basics
The political necessity of union to once again become a governing force also protects the right against the temptation to throw itself into a marriage of opposites with the heirs of a counter-revolutionary right which did so much harm to France during history, particularly during the “national revolution” implemented under the protection of the Nazi occupier. The recipes of this other right, anti-establishment, reactionary, demagogue, authoritarian, intolerant, are those of the impoverishment, disorder, withdrawal and isolation of France. Giving in to him would lead to shipwreck. Not just that of the right: that of France and that of Europe, at the worst moment of the crisis with Russia!
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