The right should not lack suitors to wear its colors in 2022, while Valérie Pécresse, Laurent Wauquiez, Xavier Bertrand and François Baroin are regularly cited as potential candidates.

But finding a method of appointment that everyone agrees may prove complicated.

After having succeeded in the regional ones, the right is getting down to the presidential election.

And it is not an easy task because the ambitions are likely to jostle on the starting line.

Jean Leonetti, the mayor of Antibes, who has become "Mr. Loyal" of the presidential election on the right, is responsible for organizing the selection of the candidate who will wear the colors of the Republicans for 2022.

Three possible names on the starting line

"I will see the three regional winners before the end of the week," Jean Leonetti told us.

Objective: to probe Laurent Wauquiez, but also the ex-LR Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand (winners respectively in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in Ile-de-France and in Hauts-de-France) about the selection method he will present a draft next Tuesday to the political bureau.

The most likely hypothesis is that of an electronic vote, open beyond LR activists.

Xavier Bertrand, however, is hostile to any idea of ​​a primary.

"Those who want the support of LR must respect the party, we have the militants, the elected officials and the money!", Warns a framework.

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François Baroin hesitant?

If Jean Leonetti is working on this selection system, it is because the large poll of a panel of 15,000 right-wing voters mentioned in early June as a method of designation may not be enough to get everyone to agree, concedes a leader .

This investigation will in any case require everyone to reveal themselves before the end of the summer.

The question was asked again Monday to François Baroin, who had said no in September. Response from the person concerned: "You will be the first to be informed if I change my mind". In short, before having a candidate, the right is still awaiting the precise list of suitors.