Republican presidential nominee: Bruno Retaille, nominee

Often the responsible politician is different. Once doomed to public obscurity, a person can quickly regain favor with members of his party. This concerns the senator from Les Républicains (LR) Vendée Bruno Retailleau. Of course, the man was always respected in his political family. However, in 2020, no one wanted him as a right-wing presidential candidate. So much so that an anti-retalio front was formed.

Two years later, at a time when the Les Républicains party is due to appoint a new president in December, the music of the leader of the right-wing senators has changed a lot. With all sensitivities in LR listening to elected officials, he is in the best position to seek unity and appeasement as party chairman. His main rivals, Lot Aurélien Pradié and Alpes-Maritimes deputies Eric Chiot? Too left for the former, too right for the latter, we say here or there. Obviously, the guarantee, say Retailleau’s supporters, that the party is already electorally torn between the renaissance on the one hand and the national rally on the other, does not explode. In any case, listening to executives. “When you’re doing less than 5%, you need to avoid any compression”Mr. Retailo warns today.

The main argument of its supporters? The work done by Mr. Retaio at the head of a group with very different and very articulate opinions in the Senate. One whose liberal sensibilities on the economic level and especially on the conservative public level are well known, has been able to accommodate elected officials with positions radically opposite to his. and with the more progressive UDI on social issues.

A clear line, no concessions are assumed

“Retailo is the most talented speaker, in terms of culture, he is a president who is absolutely unconditional. Furthermore, he was careful never to confuse his personal beliefs with the senatorial group., comments Senator LR from Paris Pierre Sharon. For Jérôme Bascher, Senator LR from Oise, President of the Group at the Luxembourg Palace “Knows how to bring life to a large and diverse group”. Accordingly, he “He comes across as a balanced person who knows how to put things together without saying that the only straight line is his own.”.

In essence, the Vendée senator takes a clear line, without concessions. “What I want is to deal with the causes of the misery that has afflicted France, to break the half-measures and to assume a policy of civilization, patriotism should not be the prerogative of Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemour alone., he explains. and add: “The French suffer from the twin anxieties of economic decline and cultural abandonment. They are impoverished in their standard of living and feel their way of life is threatened. We must protect both. »