Retailleau wants LR to exceed 15% to Europeans

Voting intentions for LR in the European countries began to rise in January, after having sometimes fallen below 10% at the end of 2018.

The leader of senators LR, Bruno Retailleau, assigned Sunday to his party the objective of "to exceed the 15%" of vote to the Europeans, whereas the polls attribute to him 12% to 14% of intentions of vote in view the 26th of May. "We are not condemned to make 14, 15% (...) We can go much further," he told the Grand Jury RTL-Le Monde-LCI, citing as an example the 20% obtained by François Fillon in the presidential 2017 "after a calamitous campaign".

The "generosity" of François-Xavier Bellamy. The voting intentions for LR to the Europeans began a recovery in January, after having sometimes fallen below 10% by the end of 2018. The main right-wing parliamentary opposition party is ranked in all the polls in the 3rd place, behind La République en marche and the National Gathering shoulder to shoulder. A dozen recent polls grant between 12 and 14% of voting intentions to the party led by Laurent Wauquiez.

"Let's try to exceed 15%!", Urged Bruno Retailleau, who paid tribute to the head of list LR François-Xavier Bellamy, in which he sees "the signal that the right leaves on strong bases" after his collapse of 2017 when, for the first time of the Fifth Republic, she had been absent from the second round. "There is an authenticity, there is a kind of depth at home with a generosity, it expresses arguments without sectarianism, and especially it is a refoundation," he said.

Reply to "double anxiety". For Bruno Retailleau, the right must respond in the European campaign to "double anguish" of the French, "economic downgrading and cultural dispossession". On the economic front, he pleaded Sunday, "we have reached the end of statism" and "our redistributive logic is at the end." According to him, only a drop in taxes will solve the downgrading of the middle classes that illustrates the movement of "yellow vests".

Bruno Retailleau also recommends a referendum to allow the Parliament to fix migratory quotas every year.