Regional in France: Emmanuel Macron in maneuver for 2022
Does Emmanuel Macron want to push for a break-up of the right in view of 2022?
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Text by: Anthony Lattier Follow
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Until now timid, the campaign for regional is accelerating.
This election promises to be bad for the presidential party, but Emmanuel Macron is in the process of maneuvering for 2022. He wants to take the opportunity to accelerate the political recomposition and weaken the right.
In the PACA region, LaREM withdrew in favor of Renaud Muselier, causing a crisis on the right.
And in Hauts-de-France, discussions around the candidacy of Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti could reshuffle the cards.
It is as if the presidential campaign has just started.
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Several sources confirm that discussions are underway for Éric Dupond-Moretti, government heavyweight, to be a candidate - his place on the list has not been stopped - in Hauts-de-France in the regional elections in June and it would not be trivial. It is in this region that one of the main possible opponents of Emmanuel Macron in the next presidential election presents himself: Xavier Bertrand, the outgoing president, who linked his fate for the presidential campaign to his re-election at the head of the region. .
The opportunity is great to try to block his path by sending the Minister of Justice, former lawyer and media figure Éric Dupond-Moretti to his land, while he is already facing a strong far right and a united left.
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It is a pathetic political maneuver, it is not the role of the President of the Republic
", indignant an LR deputy from the region.
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The LR / LREM alliance in Paca will give rise to "a lot of risks and tensions at the national level"
Push to a burst of the right
In PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), a different strategy, but the same objective: it is also to weaken the right that Emmanuel Macron has pushed for an alliance with the outgoing President Les Républicains Renaud Muselier. After 48 hours of psychodrama among the Republicans, the agreement with La République en Marche seems - in part - compromised; but the episode leaves traces: the mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, 73, former minister under Chirac and Sarkozy and regular interlocutor of the current head of state, slams the door of the Republicans. He accuses his party of refusing union with the presidential party in the face of "
the threat of the coming to power of the National Rally
", a far-right party.
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Regional in PACA: the mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco leaves Les Républicains
"
We are witnessing a great moment of clarification among Les Républicains
", rejoices a minister.
Édouard Philippe, Bruno Le Maire, Gérald Darmanin or even Jean Castex, after having debauched several of its members, Emmanuel Macron wants to push for an explosion of the right in view of 2022. “
It is from her that the danger for the next presidential election, it is this that we must continue to fracture,
”explains a close friend of the president.
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Regional elections in France
Presidential France 2022
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