On the front page: Ciotti or Pécresse, the time of choice for the Republicans
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This combination of archival photographs, created on December 2, 2021, shows the two remaining candidates after the announcement of the results of the first round of the primaries of the French conservative party Les Républicains (LR): Valérie Pécresse (L) and Eric Ciotti (R) .
AFP - JOEL SAGET
By: Norbert Navarro
3 min
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Second round of the closed primary election within the right-wing Les Républicains party. From Eric Ciotti, who came first in the first round the day before yesterday, to Valérie Pécresse, who received the support of the three losers of the first round, who will win today and thus become the candidate for Les Républicains in the presidential election next year in France? Response at the beginning of the afternoon, while the LR activists continue to vote to decide between the two finalists.
Which have been careful not to confront each other publicly.
And for good reason, since, explains
Le Figaro
, “
when you look closely, there is not on one side a candidate who advocates the alliance with Zemmour (or Le Pen) and a candidate who denounces it;
but two finalists who want to hold a line allowing the voters of Zemmour or Le Pen to find reasons to vote LR.
Which is the key to access to the second round next April
”.
A vote, in any case, which could well be anything but a formality for Valérie Pécresse
Yes because even if, from Thursday evening, Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand and Philippe Juvin clearly expressed their support for the president of the Ile-de-France region, "
things are not so simple and many will think about it until Saturday 4 December at 2 pm
”, both French time and limit for voting,
Le Parisien
point
.
According to this newspaper, "
pro-Barnier activists are not thrilled by Pécresse
".
After having "
taken the pulse
" of the members of his department, a federation president even told this daily that "
it is tighter than one might imagine
".
According to him, the deferral of the vote of the pro-Barnier electorate for the president of Île-de-France "
does not go without saying
".
This rallying for Éric Zemmour now, that of Jean-Frédéric Poisson:
The former conservative deputy and president of the VIA party (the former Christian Democratic Party) announces that he is giving up his presidential ambition to support the candidacy of Eric Zemmour.
"
He is better placed than me,
" said Jean-Frédéric Poisson to Le
Parisien
, referring to Eric Zemmour.
"
I made the decision to go to his meeting in Villepinte (tomorrow) afternoon
".
The
Parisian
site also
presents the slogan of the Zemmour 2022 campaign. Reference to Napoleon, this slogan is "
Impossible is not French
".
Le Parisien
en ligne also reports that, in the wake of the Villepinte meeting, tomorrow afternoon, “
the party's website (Eric Zemmour) will be launched with the possibility of joining online.
Unlike Emmanuel Macron, who had decided to make membership possible in one click for free, it was decided to set the cost of membership at 30 euros with rates adapted for young people, honorary members, etc.
” .
Also in the press, the Rafale gigantic contract with the United Arab Emirates
Eighty fighter planes plus missiles and a dozen helicopters, a high-tech arsenal valued at "
more than 17 billion euros
" by the Elysée, and which prides itself on
Le Figaro
, a daily belonging to the Dassault group which manufactures the Rafale cell and the missiles that go with it.
“
Dassault Aviation signs a historic contract
,” enthuses this newspaper.
"
80 Rafale to forget the fiasco of the submarines
", ironically
Le Parisien
, in reference to the recently canceled contract of French submarines to Australia.
This Rafale contract is "
the opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to try to make people forget
" the said fiasco, states this daily.
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