The rally in the suburb of wealthy Paris of Vélizy-Villacoublay Was a stop of the Retailleau campaign tour to become the next leader of Les Républicains, the formerly dominant central-right party. The successors of Charles de Gaulle have now been relegated to political purgatory after the election of Emmanuel Macron upset the political landscape of France.
The vote to name the next leader on Saturday is only open approximately 100,000 members of the Les Républicains, but the electric atmosphere that evening and during the other stops in the Retailleau campaign is to encourage party initiates to dare the most powerful police officer in France – and to challenge the stay of the presidency of France.
“We have not seen so much enthusiasm since (former president Nicolas) Sarkozy,” said a campaign official, has granted anonymity due to the internal campaign protocol.
With the next presidential election of France within two years, the Republicans dream of a return to power behind a candidate who merges economic liberalism with an anti-immigration policy which approaches that of the far-right national rally, but without the legal or historical luggage of Le Pen.
For the moment, Retailleau seems to be this man, ready to capitalize on the passage of France and Europe to the right. But it is an enigmatic figure. The 64-year-old at Glasses who practiced the Catholic in Langui for years on the back tits and throws his somewhat bookish and studious character each time he goes on stage as a warrior of fiery culture.
Little surprise that he has a pedigree in the game and dressing. Before imagining Retailleau in the middle of the golden interiors of the Elysée, we should take a trip to a dilapidated castle more than 300 kilometers southwest of Paris to understand how he developed his political identity – and learned one or two things on the dark arts of the showmanship.
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