Paris (AFP)
Fifteen months before the presidential election, the right is still looking for an incarnation but presents, unlike the left, a resolutely united front, assured the former Sarkozy minister Rachida Dati on Saturday, who does not rule out being a candidate herself. for 2022.
"On the right, we have no basic divisions, we have the same ideological base, the same convictions. After that is the incarnation, but no potential candidate on the right denigrates the neighbor, it no longer exists" , stressed the former Minister of Justice on BFM-TV, mocking a left where "Mr. Mélenchon does not get along with Ms. Hidalgo, Mr. Montebourg does not agree with Ms. Hidalgo, who is not agree with Mr. Jadot or Mr. Bayou ".
The right, "she is hungry" and "faced with the state of the country, she absolutely wants to be a credible alternative (...) At a given moment, a personality will prevail and everyone will line up behind this personality, we are all connected ", added the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris who, without applying, has repeatedly stressed in recent months having" a role to play "for 2022.
If the leadership of the Republicans calls for focusing on the substantive work while waiting to appoint its champion, several right-wing tenors have started to take their marks, such as the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau or the ex-LR presidents of the region Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand.
On the left, LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already announced his candidacy.
The ecologist Yannick Jadot, the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the former socialist minister Arnaud Montebourg have also sent signals for 2022.
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