Presidential election in France: the Baroin hypothesis resurfaces
François Baroin has been very involved in recent weeks.
Simple regional tour or out of the woods 10 months before the presidential election?
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Text by: Anne Soetemondt Follow
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D-5 before the first round of regional elections.
Meetings, towings, in all the camps one throws its last forces in the battle.
On the right, the boss of the LR multiplies the trips.
Christian Jacob will be this Tuesday, June 15 in Toulouse to support the head of the LR list, Aurélien Pradié.
At his side too, François Baroin.
The former minister has been very involved in recent weeks.
Simple regional tour or out of the woods 10 months before the presidential election?
The Baroin hypothesis resurfaces.
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Toulouse.
The limousin to support the daughter of Jacques Chirac, or Bordeaux, François Baroin is everywhere.
Credited with 10% of the vote in 2022 by the polls without ever having said that he thought about it when shaving, the former minister never stops sending postcards.
Some even saw in the decision of party boss Christian Jacob to further postpone the possibility of a primary in the fall the mark of a possible shift on his part.
What if Jacques Chirac's spiritual son
finally wanted to go there
and save a rout in the Right?
"
If he goes, he will put all the right of agreement
", comments a framework "
but does he want it?
An eternal question.
His friend Christian Jacob has been saying it for months: “
As long as François hasn't closed the door, it's possible
”.
Problem: if he does not say a word about 2022 in public, according to a member of the management, internally François Baroin "
talks about it a lot, and explained that he did not want to go
".
So will go, will not go?
"
There is beginning to be a grumbling, he must speak clearly
", plague an elected official.
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