The president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, will boost his campaign for the 2022 presidential election this week.

"From April, I speak all the time", entrusted the candidate to Europe 1. Objective: to detail his proposals and to impose himself on the right, as well as with the French.

It is not a week like the others which begins for Xavier Bertrand.

A little more than a year from the 2022 presidential election, the president of the Hauts-de-France region is not waiting for the regional elections to pass to launch his campaign on a national scale.

This should experience a real boost in the coming days.

"From the end of March, I will be out of the woods strongly," Xavier Bertrand told Europe 1. "And from April, I talk all the time."

On the right, The Republicans (LR) are warned.

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Media offensive

Anyone who dreams of being their natural candidate will not wait for the Covid-19 crisis to be less acute, and even less for the fall, to go on the offensive.

And it does not matter if it displeases the boss of LR, Christian Jacob.

The latter had estimated that the French would not really have the head in the presidential one until next November.

Xavier Bertrand will unveil his first proposals on Thursday in the weekly

Le Point

.

Then he will then be the guest of Europe 1 this Sunday, during the Grand Rendez-vous.

This media offensive shows that Xavier Bertrand is accelerating while other potential candidates, such as the president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse or the president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Laurent Wauquiez, should not flinch before the regional ones.

Outsmart the "all but Bertrand"

For the president of Hauts-de-France, the objective is to impose himself on the right, where some nevertheless advocate an "all but Bertrand".

It is also an opportunity for him to show himself in the eyes of the French.

A recent survey gives him the clear winner in the event of a duel with the leader of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen.

Still it will be necessary to reach the second round: it is for the moment credited with about 15% of the votes in the first round.

Still, Xavier Bertrand is convinced that we will be interested in his project if he is said to be capable of beating Marine Le Pen.