The manner of nominating the candidate for the presidential election of 2022 continues to agitate the right.

And it is Rachida Dati's turn to make her voice heard.

The former Minister of Justice asks the Republicans to "close the hypothesis of the primary" and to find themselves "behind a single candidate in January", in an interview with Le

Parisien

on Monday

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The mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris regrets that his camp does not learn “from our experience and our past mistakes concerning the primary: hatred, divisions, slingshots”.

“I don't understand our rush.

We are only in August.

I would rather be in favor of everyone campaigning and ending up behind a single candidate in January ”.

For the moment, "there is no obvious candidacy"

“They say that the polls do not make the elections. Okay, but we're watching them! They help to give a temperature, ”she notes. "But what will count will be the strength and dynamism of the campaign, the ability to embody and give confidence to the French in the future". Rachida Dati believes that “to date, there is no obvious candidacy. I will support and I will campaign for the sole candidate of the right and the center, ”she adds.

Finally, questioned on the case of Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR), who refuses the primary, she notes that a "candidate who would refuse dialogue with other potential candidates and with his political family would not be up to this presidential election ".

“To win,” she believes, “everyone must submit to collective rules to have a single candidate.

Otherwise, activists, voters and the French will turn their backs on them ”.

Our dossier on the 2022 presidential election

Five LR candidates are contenders for a possible primary (Valérie Pécresse, Michel Barnier, Eric Ciotti, Philippe Juvin, Denis Payre).

LR will decide on its organization or not at a congress on September 25, with the aim of nominating its candidate at the end of November.

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