While Xavier Bertrand is campaigning against the RN in Hauts-de-France, Emmanuel Macron travels to the same region on Thursday to serve a similar objective.

But no alliance is on the agenda between LR and LREM, because Xavier Bertrand wants to challenge Macron in 2022 for the presidential palace. 

"I wanted to explain to you how we intend to continue to fight for you, to fight for other France."

In Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand continues to campaign hard against the RN, a few days before the first round of regional elections.

On Wednesday, it was in a very large gymnasium that he had made an appointment with several dozen local elected officials.

"Everyone knows it will be them or us"

Microphone in hand, he details his three main priorities: employment, health and safety.

A whole program so as not to leave the region to the National Assembly.

And if in a recent survey, Xavier Bertrand is followed by Sébastien Chenu in the first round, he wants to be confident.

"How is it that in 5 years, the National Front [the National Rally, editor's note] has fallen by 8%, while we [LR, editor's note] have progressed by 10%? 'is fought for the people and that they recognize it. We are the only ones, the only list which can prevent the National Front from leading this region, everyone knows very well that it will be us or them. "

Macron on the move against the RN

But this statement is not to the taste of Emmanuel Macron, who has been involved for several weeks by going on the ground to meet the French.

And whatever the Élysée may say, it clearly does politics.

"We should not underestimate him, he is doing the right thing", explains a minister at the microphone of Europe 1.

And the president has a particular party in his sights: the RN.

It is therefore no coincidence that the president is going to Hauts-de-France this Thursday, where the LREM list is credited with 10% of voting intentions.

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The Head of State will notably visit Villers-Cotterêts, an RN town since 2014. But the ruined castle of this town will become next year the International City of the French Language.

The Head of State therefore wants to make it a symbol.

But the trip of Emmanuel Macron is still unlikely to shake things up.

According to information from Europe 1, Wednesday, in the closed session of the Council of Ministers, Emmanuel Macron invited his government not to draw national lessons from Sunday's results, as if he himself was preparing minds for a certain electoral rout.

No LR-LREM alliance

And if we believe the polls in Hauts-de-France, LREM has little chance of winning.

This could be played out in the second round, where Xavier Bertrand and Sébastien Chenu are tied if the LREM and left lists are maintained.

But Xavier Bertrand assures him, no alliance is possible.

"It will be the same list in the first and second rounds," he insists.

There is no question of asking for the help of the presidential majority, when he wants to face Emmanuel Macron in 2022. But for this, Xavier Bertrand must first of all be reelected in his region.