The Republicans party will bring together, no doubt Tuesday, July 20, several potential right - wing candidates for the 2022 presidential election, AFP learned on Wednesday, confirming information from

Figaro

.

The head of LR Christian Jacob, the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the mayor of Antibes Jean Leonetti, who has been entrusted with a mission on the "process of bringing together" potential candidates, will receive them to discuss the rest of the process. , said Jean Leonetti.

The date of July 20 put forward by

Le Figaro

is according to him "highly probable", but "the list of participants is not fully established, nor the place of the meeting".

For or against a primary

According to the newspaper, the meeting would take place in the Senate and would bring together former European negotiator Michel Barnier, the mayor of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) Philippe Juvin, the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau and the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez, all LR.

The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, who left LR, is also expected, but not her Hauts-de-France counterpart Xavier Bertrand, another ex-LR.

Xavier Bertrand, declared presidential candidate, has said several times to refuse in advance to participate in a possible primary, which on the other hand demanded by Valérie Pécresse, Laurent Wauquiez and Bruno Retailleau, as well as the centrist Hervé Morin, president of the Normandy region.

In "a desire to unite"

The upcoming meeting is agreed “so that we can talk to each other, and that's positive.

This shows that there is a will to unite, ”commented Bruno Retailleau to AFP.

The party has set September 25 as the deadline for reaching an agreement.

If this optimistic hypothesis does not materialize, a congress will decide in the fall of a tie-breaking process, despite the reluctance of management on the primary.

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