Rachida Dati's ambitions for 2022 do not excite the right

Rachida Dati, LR candidate in Paris, in her office at the town hall of the 7th arrondissement.

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• “I fought against the French elites.

  Now I want to be president, ”Rachida Dati told The 

  Times

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• The exit of the ex-candidate Les Républicains in Paris did not really stir up his political family.

• Some believe that the former minister could offer a ticket with Xavier Bertrand in the presidential election.

Faithful to her habits, Rachida Dati is not going four ways.

Former Les Républicains candidate for mayor of Paris announced in

have the ambition to "win the presidential election of 2022", according to comments published in English.

The title of the article is just as explicit: “I fought against the French elites.

Now I want to be president.

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“When you are in politics and you win electoral battles and you move your cause forward, that you defend your values ​​and a community of destinies, necessarily, there comes a point where you say to yourself, especially when you look at the state of the country, this battle, maybe I could lead it, ”explains the mayor of the 7th arrondissement in the British daily.

A successful campaign ... punctuated by a defeat

Rachida Dati, however, has come a long way.

Starting from almost nowhere at the start of the 2019 school year, the former MEP had finally imposed her candidacy on her party, LR, for the municipal elections in the capital, then raised the head of the Parisian right, despite unfavorable polls.

After a vigorous campaign, the former Minister of Justice of Nicolas Sarkozy was finally beaten by nearly 15 points by the outgoing socialist mayor in the second round.

But even his opponents hailed his good performance, already sensing national ambitions.

“She did not manage to beat Anne Hidalgo, but she managed a tour de force with the best campaign dynamics.

At the national level, it will install her as a leader of LR, and as a potentially presidential personality moreover, on this popular straight line, a little sarkozyste ”, then confided to us a head of the list of the dissident walker Cédric Villani in Paris .

The person already claimed to have "a role to play" for 2022.

"Let us not pollute the regional countryside with ego quarrels"

At a time when the right is struggling to find a champion for the presidential election, Rachida Dati therefore decides to accelerate.

But his announcement did not really move his political family.

“I went to watch

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There is no scoop, she says she wants to help win the right in 2022. It's about positioning yourself, showing that it matters.

Let's talk about all this after the regional “, evacuates with a bit of bad faith the deputy of Vaucluse Julien Aubert.

“All ambitions are legitimate.

But the time has not come, abounds his colleague from Pas-de-Calais, Pierre-Henri Dumont.

Let’s not pollute the region’s countryside with ego quarrels.

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Faced with a puzzle on how to appoint his or her candidate for 2022, the party decided to postpone the decision on this point to next April, that is to say the day after the departmental and regional elections.

In the meantime, the possible renunciation of the “favorite” François Baroin leaves the field open to other suitors.

“Dati's interview is a way of placing oneself within LR.

I think she wants to put pressure on management to offer a ticket with Xavier Bertrand.

It plays on the Parisian side, metropolis, and he as a defender of the territories ”, analyzes a framework of the movement.

A ticket with Xavier Bertrand to come?

In mid-September, Rachida Dati did not exclude support for the president of the Hauts-de-France region, who left Les Républicains at the end of 2017. “He is the one who is most hungry,” she said on BFMTV.

It is not in technical contingencies.

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

Xavier Betrand, who also calls himself a social and popular right, had also come to support Rachida Dati during his Parisian campaign.

“These statements are a strategy like any other to influence the rest of the story.

I would see her in tandem with Xavier Bertrand, the most able to bring together.

The two have complementary profiles, that would have the mouth ”, enthuses already Julien Dive, supporter of the northerner.

For the moment, few LR elected officials seem to take Dati's candidacy for 2022 seriously. The fault of the format, a portrait-interview in a foreign daily?

The feeling of a common strategy with Xavier Bertrand?

An LR deputy puts forward another reason: “There is this legal affair with Carlos Ghosn * which could be problematic for him… The right wing does not especially want to relive a Fillon affair.

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* As part of the investigation into Carlos Ghosn, a judicial investigation was opened last year by the courts on facts of "abuse of corporate assets" and "passive corruption" around consulting contracts entered into by the Renault-Nissan alliance with Rachida Dati and criminologist Alain Bauer.

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