A new president, a new management ... are missing only new ideas. Wedged between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the right knows it: it must now renew itself on the bottom.
To do this, the new leader of the party, Christian Jacob, wants to set up a political foundation, chaired by Jean Leonetti. The latter poses the diagnosis: "We are poor in ideas, not poor in talent." The Foundation, a sort of laboratory of ideas, will call on experts, people from civil society, to give a little oxygen to LR. "To get out of the rut, facing Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, we must invest fields that we have not worked enough," says a close Christian Jacob.
"Why not nationalize school canteens?"
The secretary general of the party, Aurélien Pradié, summarizes: "it is not only the immigration and the taxation of the companies." LR will therefore invest new topics. With a first thematic convention on food ... and iconoclastic ideas for the right. "Why not nationalize school canteens," suggests an elected. The party also wants to work on housing, disability or gender equality.
Professional forums will also be launched on tourism, industry or justice. The party is giving itself a year to refound its ideological bases.