In the aftermath of the regional elections, the right is already looking towards the presidential election. The President of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, unveiled, on Monday, the calendar of his party by 2022, with a nomination of the candidate still scheduled for November, warning that “no one wins alone”.
The result of the regional, where the right has consolidated its positions, “allows us to open the next stage under the best auspices,” said Christian Jacob at the end of a meeting of the LR strategic committee.
“The activists will decide”
During this meeting, “we decided on a calendar: we will have a political bureau on July 6, then a decision on a tie-breaker system on September 30” which “will be presented in congress” because “the militants will decide”, affirmed Christian Jacob. “All this to have a candidate in the first half of November,” he added, reiterating his wish “to avoid” arriving at a tie-breaker system, “because things are always better when we can come together spontaneously ”.
But the mayor of Antibes Jean Leonetti “obviously” is working on this hypothesis on which the party will decide in September at the end of a vast survey of 15,000 people which “will not be a decision-making process but will help to clarify” the decision. .
Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez approached
“It respects the rhythm which has always been ours”, because “the goal is not to rush, it is to win”, added Christian Jacob the day after regional which saw the right consolidate its positions, in particular in the regions where the outgoing presidents could claim the nomination of their political family for 2022. Christian Jacob judged “normal” that these potential candidates affirmed their ambitions because “by nature a candidate is not shy”, and seeing it “The desire to win”.
But “the right must be united, united to win”, and Xavier Bertrand like Valérie Pécresse or Laurent Wauquiez “are fully aware of this”, added Christian Jacob, for whom “whoever is selected will have to be able to rally” . “We will win because we will have the ability to build a team for France, no one wins alone, especially not a presidential”, he warned, believing that “there is a real opportunity to win”.