ELECTIONS – The question of a primary on the right, as well as the list of its participants could be decided
The party The Republicans will bring together, no doubt Tuesday, July 20, several potential candidates from the right to the 2022 presidential election, AFP learned on Wednesday, confirming information from Figaro.
The head of LR Christian Jacob, the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the mayor of Antibes Jean Leonetti, who has been entrusted with a mission on the “process of bringing together” potential candidates, will receive them to discuss the rest of the process, said Jean Leonetti. The date of July 20 put forward by Le Figaro is according to him “highly probable”, but “the list of the participants is not completely established, nor the place of the meeting”.
For or against a primary
According to the newspaper, the meeting would take place in the Senate and would bring together former European negotiator Michel Barnier, the mayor of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) Philippe Juvin, the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau and the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez, all LR. The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, who left LR, is also expected, but not her Hauts-de-France counterpart Xavier Bertrand, another ex-LR.
Xavier Bertrand, declared presidential candidate, has said several times to refuse in advance to participate in a possible p (…) Read more on 20minutes
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