The renunciation of François Baroin for 2022 has rekindled internal tensions within the Les Républicains party.

In view of the presidential election, party figures and potential presidential candidates are opposed both on the line to be taken, the people to embody it and the methods to oppose the majority.

Frequent rat race at Les Républicains!

Gathered in a seminar at the National Assembly on Thursday, deputies, senators and right-wing MEPs engaged in a real settling of scores.

The right-wing party finds itself totally disoriented by the renunciation of François Baroin and the ambitions for 2022 of Bruno Retailleau.

Nothing says that this day, the first which brought together parliamentarians for nine years, really served to erase the divisions of a political formation accustomed to division.

"Intolerable" personal attacks

This seminar turned to washing dirty laundry in public.

François-Xavier Bellamy complained about the murderous little phrases about his score in the European elections and his conservative line.

These courtesies have one objective: to torpedo Bruno Retailleau's candidacy.

"I'm quite distressed to see that our political family is engaged in some sort of trench warfare that is more like a 'war of the buttons' and again, 'Bellamy and his 10%'. It doesn't make me smile at all anymore. ", railed François-Xavier Bellamy.

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Bruno Retailleau started by saying that he was in favor of the basic debate but not of personal attacks, "intolerable".

With a certain irony, Christian Jacob was delighted that the war on small phrases had been declared: "No one will seek to gain notoriety by hitting against their political family. But it's great."

"To burst the abscess"

It is clearly not won between Bruno Retailleau, who accuses LR of not wanting a primary, and the number three of the party, Aurélien Pradié, never tender with the Vendée senator.

"I listened with a lot of passion to Bruno Retailleau talk to us about the right from above, the right below, the right of grandpa… You really believe that it is decent to shout oneself whether we do a little primary, or what if we don't? It's absolutely indecent. "

"Everyone is on the nerves", plays down an LR executive in off-duty with Europe 1. "So we have to burst the abscess."