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THE PALACE LETTER. The hypothesis of a tight result, Sunday, between Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau poses the threat of a party permanently split in two.
By Nathalie Schuck
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” LRepublicans are a bit like couples who don’t divorce because of children. They are cut into pieces: a conservative right, a popular right and even a social right! What is the line? stings a centrist elected official.
A few hours before the verdict of the activists for the presidency of LR, expected on the evening of Sunday December 11, many elected officials on the right fear that the final vote between Éric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau will be so tight that the party finds itself permanently fractured between two camps. , one entrenched in the National Assembly and the other in the Senate.
At the end of an internal campaign which was only courteous on the outside, and very venomous behind the scenes, some even come to evoke the dreaded specter of the Fillon-Copé war of 2012, just ten years ago.
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