Presidency of the Republicans: Laurent Wauquiez's Heavy Defeat

The deputy auvergnat was largely swept away by Bruno Retailleau at the congress of the Republican Party. This defeat still delays the presidential ambitions of the one who had done everything possible to enhance his rightization. She also signs his loss of local influence.

INFO THE FIGARO - Parliamentarians LR unanimously renewed their confidence in the boss of the Republican Right Group on Tuesday.

The election of the President of the Republicans was held with an electoral corps of 121,617 registered voters. The turnout was 80%. 98,110 voters took part in the poll. Of these, 374 voters voted blank. There were 97,736 votes cast. The Minister of the Interior won very widely, with 74.3% of the votes against 25.6% for the former president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. What is called folding the match. Let's look more closely at the map o…

Sentenced by LR members who preferred him Bruno Retailleau, the Member of Parliament for Haute-Loire did not abandon the idea of a presidential candidacy.

EDITORIAL. By winning only 25.7% of the party's members' votes against Bruno Retailleau, the leader of the LR deputies suffered a severe setback. Opposed to almost everything Emmanuel Macron has engaged since 2017, but without defining alternative doctrine, he remained a prisoner of the two adjectives to which many of his opponents associate his name: brutal and insinuating.

Mordant, staggered and always funny. The cartoonist Twister looks at a publication by Mediacités. This week: our revelations on the hunt for the new members The Republicans in Haute-Loire, the fief of Laurent Wauquiez.