2023-09-04 05:22:28
Laurent Wauquiez at the political start of the Republicans in Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes), August 27, 2023. OLIVIER MONGE / MYOP FOR “THE WORLD”
Blue sky and a breath of fresh air at 1,753 m, Mont Mézenc (straddling Haute-Loire and Ardèche), where Laurent Wauquiez made his political comeback on Sunday September 3, responds to the Chiraquian formula: “ it’s far, but it’s beautiful”. Before his traditional rise, a relative of the former boss of the Les Républicains (LR) party had warned: “The political material will be thin, but the weather will be nice and it’s a nice ride. » Promise kept. The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region has been faithful to his strategy: that of silence.
This twelfth climb did not give rise to any speeches this time. It was not for him the moment to evoke, with the choice, the remarks of Nicolas Sarkozy judging his former minister too “little arm” for the presidential election of 2027, nor the political returns to the right of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, or of David Lisnard, LR mayor of Cannes. “Enjoy the landscape instead, not everything is a sign”advises Mr. Wauquiez to journalists who came to the meeting, where activists and some local elected officials had thronged.
To defend the long perspective of someone who dreams of reversing the course of a “French decadence”the LR deputy from the Rhône, Alexandre Portier, uses the cycling metaphor: “There will be a time for political speeches, for the campaign. We’re still in a flat stage, it’s not the time to attack but to get back together in the peloton and build party unity. »
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” To walk slowly “
While waiting to see their champion on the offensive in the high passes, LR executives have learned to deal with the rare postcards (two interviews at Point and at Figaro in six months, videos on his YouTube channel) sent by the candidate LR almost all designated for the next presidential election. “You have to understand that it is not in the little political phrase”defended Eric Ciotti at the microphone of BFM-TV last week.
This winter, the boss of the right-wing party however suffered from the extreme discretion of his friend during the battle for pension reform, while Eric Ciotti was struggling to be heard by his own troops in the National Assembly. From ancient history, it is said in the clan of the two men. A time less zealous in praising the merits of the regional president, Mr. Ciotti again heats the rooms by applauding « Laurent ». “This promise of victory [en 2027], it is Laurent who embodies it with strength and talent », he announced on Sunday August 27 during his political comeback in Le Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes). That day, Laurent Wauquiez stood in the second line: “It’s Eric’s day, not mine”.
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