Christian Estrosi has found emergency access to the right.

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SYSPEO / SIPA

  • Christian Estrosi proposed to his party to make an agreement with Emmanuel Macron for 2022.

  • The proposal had the effect of a small bomb on his friends of LR.

  • It actually reveals the fact that the right is slow to find a champion for the presidential election.

One more nail on LR's coffin?

In this period of return, Christian Estrosi threw a small bomb in the pages of

Figaro

Monday evening.

"Let's make an agreement with Emmanuel Macron so that he is our common presidential candidate," launches the mayor (Les Républicains) of Nice to his friends, whom he does not fail to knock down in passing.

“There is a lot of talent out there but, let's be honest, none of us are required to compete in the presidential race,” he said.

At a time when the party is trying to raise its head and struggle to find a champion for 2022, the proposed alliance with the marchers looks like sabotage.

"We're getting our heads out of the water, we're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot"

"It's a way of short-circuiting us, of creating discord, of discord", annoys Philippe Gosselin, LR deputy for the Channel.

"Christian is free to join the presidential majority if he wishes, but to bow down before the presidential battle has really started seems very imprudent to me.

We are working on a project, we have regional and departmental elections to prepare.

There, he plays against his camp.

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The Republicans would have done well without this outing.

After rather successful municipal elections, here they are looking at the next polls with gusto.

The rival LREM has she not shown the limits of its local presence?

A sign, want to believe the LR executives, that "the routourne has turned" for the head of state.

“We won 50% of the municipalities in the municipal elections.

This means that a good number of those who left for Emmanuel Macron in 2017 have come back to us, ”wants to believe the elected representative of the North Sébastien Huyghe.

“Contrary to what Estrosi says, I didn't hear anyone at LR having this alliance speech with Macron.

We're getting our heads out of the water, we're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot.

On the contrary, this interview will allow us to close ranks ”.

"It is a symptom of the lack of incarnation on the right"

Christian Jacob, the president of LR, is however struggling to gather his troops for the start of the school year, this weekend in Port-Marly, in the Yvelines.

It is because everyone is already thinking about the presidential election of 2022. And the fall is shaping up without the Republicans having yet agreed on the name of a candidate, or even on the way to appoint him.

This is why Estrosi's proposal hurts the right: it reveals the mistakes of a political family used to lining up behind a leader, now untraceable.

“It's a symptom of the lack of incarnation on the right.

If we had a personality that had imposed itself for a few months, Estrosi would probably not have kept his words, ”breathes Gosselin.

A political space reduced like the skin of sorrow

“This interview comes at the wrong time, adds Daniel Fasquelle, the mayor of Le Touquet and national treasurer of the party.

We are in the middle of the start of the school year, at the heart of the Covid crisis.

The right must do everything to have its own project, its own candidate.

Names are circulating, things will soon settle, ”adds this support from François Baroin.

But with the emergence of Emmanuel Macron, the political space of the right has shrunk considerably.

And the Head of State has continued in recent months his operation to seduce the right, by appointing Jean Castex in Matignon, and by reinforcing Gerald Darmanin and Bruno Le Maire in the government.

Trapped on the economy, the right has been trying lately to scratch Macronie on the regal, and particularly security.

While all the potential LR candidates are leveling off in the polls, she seems to be betting above all, without admitting it too much, on a collapse of Emmanuel Macron in the home stretch.

"Two years from the 2017 election, who imagined that François Hollande was unable to stand?

Or that Emmanuel Macron is able to overturn the table?

Very smart who can say what will happen in the coming months, ”emphasizes Philippe Gosselin.

Failing to find a savior, the right relies on its lucky star.

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