Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Thibault Nadal 6:22 a.m., April 28, 2022, modified at 6:22 a.m., April 28, 2022

After the heavy defeat of Valérie Pécresse in the first round of the presidential election, the question of the future among the Republicans arises more than ever, just over a month before the legislative elections.

Within the party, several currents are emerging, particularly among young elected officials who dream of taking power.

While the other political parties are now embodied by young figures, such as Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella or Adrien Quatennens, LR is struggling to bring out its new guard.

Several of its elected officials, in their thirties or forties, too young to have known the victories of Jacques Chirac or Nicolas Sarkozy, aspire to take more responsibility, especially after the third consecutive defeat in the presidential election.

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“Resist the Macronist wave”

From Pierre-Henri Dumont to Raphaël Schellenberger via Jonas Haddad, they are counting on the legislative elections to definitively impose themselves on their camp: "If we are re-elected, we will have ten years of political life behind us and resisted two waves of macronists “, pleads an outgoing deputy, who denies any conflict within the party.

Words confirmed by Aurélien Pradié, deputy of Lot, who simply calls for a renewal of generations.

"We are lucky at LR to have two generations who are able to work with each other, it's surely time for the Republican right to look a little more like society," he explains. he.

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Two opposing currents at LR

Without naming them, several executives are nevertheless targeted, heirs of the Sarkozy era, such as Jean-François Copé or Brice Hortefeux in particular.

The objective will now be to succeed in finding a line that could bring together this young generation.

Because as for their elders, several currents clash: that sovereigntist and conservative carried by François-Xavier Bellamy or the supporters of a more popular and social right, embodied especially by Aurélien Pradié.