Presidential: "Let's form a great team", says Bertrand to Pécresse and Wauquiez

Xavier Bertrand, on his way to the presidential election after winning a second term at the head of Hauts-de-France on Sunday, called on Monday Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez, also re-elected, to form "a great team" for 2022.

"Let's form a great team," he said from Douai (North), questioned on BFMTV about his message to his counterparts in the Ile-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions.

Because "when there is a great and beautiful team of France, I am convinced that it wins, not for it, not to have a prize list, quite simply because it makes proud and in addition this beautiful team of France, I think she can do good things for France ".

"A three-way match"

Best hope of the right in 2022 according to the polls, despite his departure from LR in 2017, Xavier Bertrand announced in March his desire to be "the third man" in the presidential election, on condition of winning a second regional term. It is done with a score of 52.37% in the second round of the regional, far ahead of RN Sébastien Chenu, at 25.64%.

The former LR Valérie Pécresse, outgoing president in Ile-de-France, was also re-elected (45.92%), ahead of the union list of the left led by the ecologist Julien Bayou (33.68% ). The same goes for LR Laurent Wauquiez in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with a score of 55.17% against 33.65% on the union list of the environmental candidate Fabienne Grebert. "This result gives me the strength to go out and meet all the French," Xavier Bertrand reacted immediately on Sunday evening about his own re-election. 

"Now everyone has understood that the presidential election is now a three-way match. The two-man match has lead in the wing: Marine Le Pen berates his voters - it's unheard of - and Emmanuel Macron is still looking to step over the poll, "he also considered in an interview with Les Echos Thursday, reported by the economic daily Sunday evening.

Bruno Retailleau calls for "a method of deciding"

The right has "no natural candidate", however estimated Monday on France 2 the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau, candidate for a possible primary of the right in view of 2022, claiming "a method of deciding".

"Success in the territorial, that does not necessarily mean success in the presidential elections. Simply, the right is in the majority and nothing is played," he added.

Nevertheless, "only the right can disrupt the face-to-face meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen" according to him, on two conditions: "unity", and "a clear line".

"For those who are on the starting line, we can talk to each other. If we go in dispersed order, if we are again the dumbest right in the world (…), if we are disunited, it will be over", a he warned.