Xavier Bertrand in La Ville-aux-Bois-lès-Dizy, May 17, 2020. -

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Former minister Xavier Bertrand is "the one who is most hungry" on the right to be a presidential candidate in 2022, ex-minister Rachida Dati assured Friday, while The Republicans are looking for a figure.

Asked about BFMTV and RMC to know if she herself wanted to go there, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris replied: "I want it, but I want it to be the best" and "I don't know if I can be the best ”.

Saying that she wanted to be "in a collective dynamic", she emphasized "discussing very often with Xavier Bertrand": "we know each other well and we are of the same social extraction".

The president of the Hauts-de-France region is therefore the best in his eyes?

“He's hungry, I'm telling you.

He's the one who's most hungry, ”she said.

Doubts about the desire to go from Baroin

“It is not in technical contingencies;

when we see each other we talk about politics, the French, the difficulties ”.

And then “he left LR, it's true, but he understood what France wanted.

The key: the popular classes.

If we continue to disgust them, it is sure that we will have a very small caste that will vote and we will be in a social reproduction, and there France will be totally down, ”she said.

Rachida Dati was one of the few with whom Xavier Bertrand appeared during the campaign for the municipal elections, during a trip to Paris at the end of February where both had affirmed their concern for the popular classes.

According to Rachida Dati, for the presidential election, “we don't need 150 proposals” but only “four: the reduction of inequalities, economic recovery, re-establishment of security, re-establishment of authority”.

The Republicans were betting a lot on François Baroin to represent them in the presidential election of 2022, but doubts are growing on the will of the mayor of Troyes to go there.

In the absence of a natural candidate, they returned the choice of their candidate to April 2021, either after the regional ones which will be crucial for several tenors of the right, inside or outside the party.

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  • Rachida Dati

  • Presidential election

  • Xavier Bertrand

  • The Republicans