The leader of right -wing deputies Laurent Wauquiez promised to “change everything” in the LR camp. Organization, party name, statutes … Everything will go into anticipation of the municipal elections of 2026.
In -depth reform. This is what the Les Républicains party is preparing after the last bitter failure of the presidential election 2022 and the debacle suffered by Valérie Pécresse. To approach the municipal elections of 2026 at best, the right counts on its two strong men of the moment – and the coming months – Laurent Wauquiezpresident of the group La Drois Républicaine in the National Assembly and Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior and first symbol of a full -changing right.
A political bureau Wednesday followed by a congress in the spring
This Tuesday, February 4, the two men have an appointment for dinner together. An interview that falls at stake because tomorrow, Tuesday, the political office of the Republicans must be held to clarify the gray areas on the overhaul of the party, and in particular the election of its president. “This Wednesday, February 5 at the Maison de la Chimie (7th), former Minister – Laurent Wauquiez – must make his conclusions in a political bureau, before a convention scheduled for next spring,” said the columns of the point. This famous congress should be held next April. It was only after the latter that the name of the new party leader will be appointed by right -wing activists.
“We are going to change everything. Change our organization, our name, the program we carry,” promised the leader of the right-wing deputies in the lower room of the Parliament, last week during a public meeting in Maison- Alfort (Val-de-Marne). And in his words, no “chief war”, it’s out of the question. Indeed, the Elysian ambitions of the one and the growing popularity rating of Bruno Retailleau, on the other hand, suggest that the negotiations could be more complex than expected in the LR house.
“Avoid the war of chefs” at all costs
“My first obsession is to avoid the war of the chiefs, which is still a bit of the specialty of the right (…) the worst way of recondizing the right is to start with the question of the chief . .
But since the arrival of Bruno Retailleau Place Beauvau as the first cop in France, last has gained popularity and appears as a credible candidate to energize the right and give a second breath to a sick political family, if we believe the last electoral results of France.
Last December, an Opinion Way survey placed Retailleau far ahead of Wauquiez that it was for an application for the next presidential election or at the head of LR, both on all the French and among the sympathizers on the right. From now on, the equation is simple: two candidates, one place.