“I considered that the worst was not ruled out, and the worst is the division. “The leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau, who has given up standing for the presidential election, called on Saturday afternoon in La Baule the five right-wing candidates for” union “for 2022, because this election” it is much more ”than the meeting of a man and a people.
“I wanted to launch a call for union to say that too many divisions, too many dispersions lead nowhere”, declared the elected representative of Vendée to explain his decision, “extremely difficult”, not to stand. in the presidential election. Bruno Retailleau closed the Republican pre-entry into La Baule (Loire-Atlantique), which brought together around 500 activists.
A message to Xavier Bertrand
“Unity” is the “most difficult” demand for the right, which “values independence of mind” and “places great value on individuals rather than parties.” But “this Gallic spirit will lead us nowhere” except “to Alesia” and “it will be Jupiter who will benefit from it”, added the Vendée senator.
This fervent supporter of a primary also sent an indirect message to the candidate Xavier Bertrand who does not want a primary and says he is convinced that the presidential election is “a meeting between a man and the French”. “This presidential election will not only be the meeting of a man or a woman and a people, it will be much more than that. It will be the meeting of our people of France with their destiny, ”he said.
“We have reached a turning point in our history”
Emmanuel Macron is not on the right, insisted Bruno Retailleau, when “he lets the public spending slip away” or “lets violence unleash everywhere”, and fails “his promises of transformation and reconciliation” of the country.
This representative of the right wing of the party also estimated that the project of his political family “will not be done with lukewarm water”, defending the value of work and a referendum on immigration. “We have come to a turning point in our history between decline or recovery.”