Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Juline Garnier 06:02, May 07, 2022

The Republicans officially launch their campaign for the legislative elections this Saturday.

A National Council is held during the day at the party headquarters to present the project and the 577 candidates who will leave under the banner of the right and the center.

Even if the campaign promises to be difficult, the Republicans want to believe in it.

If the conquest of new constituencies promises to be complicated, the objective is clearly displayed: the re-election of the maximum number of outgoing deputies in the legislative elections.

They are 80 in total.

All of them resisted the first Emmanuel Macron wave in 2017 and therefore want to believe in their chances again this year.

For this, the Republicans are brandishing a major argument of local anchoring.

Faced in particular with candidates on the move that the right wants to believe are much less established, and in an attempt to erase the memory of Valérie Pécresse's score in the presidential election, each occupies the ground in their constituency.

LR invests in "local realities"

On the program: to be as close as possible to local realities, far from the national campaign led on the other side of the political spectrum by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

“Especially that he leaves us alone”, confides a candidate about the authorities of the party.

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Most will also be absent from the National Council during the speeches of executives Christian Jacob, Laurent Wauquiez or Gérard Larcher.

And a sign that the party should be discreet in the coming weeks: there will be no official campaign posters, only a sober slogan which highlights the proximity claimed by LR, "To defend you".