“Come, we will take the time to talk together. I need your ideas. » After singing – a cappella – The Marseillaise, Laurent Wauquiez appeals to people on the right, on Thursday, November 28 in Talant, on the outskirts of Dijon. The one who still aspires to enter the Elysée in 2027 continues his tour of the Gold Coast “refoundation” It started three weeks earlier. Since the official departure of its questioned former president, Eric Ciotti, in October, the Les Républicains (LR) party, in a prolonged energy savings, has been left without a president.
On October 15, the LR political office postponed the election until later, but entrusted Mr. Wauquiez with this mission that seemed like a great project. “The principle is to reform everything and start from a new base: review the statutes, the ideological corpus, invest in new areas, and this even goes so far as to change the name”indicates to World the leader of the Republican Right group in the National Assembly.
For his detractors, the Haute Loire deputy does not “never just one round of meals” and others before him have already promised to change everything. “We have been talking about rebuilding with the same recipes for twenty years without ever wanting to do it”estimates Aurélien Pradié, former number two of the party and deputy for Lot, now not registered. While a member of the office believes that Laurent Wauquiez seeks above all to ensure that no one other than him emerges at the head of the party.
The latter prefers to salute the beautiful participatory democracy. “On Monday I had very interesting conversations in Hauts-de-Seine with young people about our social media policy and how to use artificial intelligence”he gets excited. A group of around twenty elected officials who will meet on December 3 participated in the reflection. The deputy for Val-de-Marne, Vincent Jeanbrun, participates in this work. “When Gabriel Attal fights for the presidency of Renaissance with Elisabeth Borne, it is above all a question of ego. With Laurent Wauquiez, we first do this essential work of reflection on our political line”he assures.
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But is the mission worth choosing? For the moment, Laurent Wauquiez does not say anything about his intentions to assume the presidency of a renowned party. The Ciotti episode would have inoculated him against the “good friend” idea of keeping his place warm. “I work a lot in friendship, even though sometimes they betray us. I must have a recent example.” the interested party jokes before the 250 people who came to listen to him on Thursday.
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