Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Ophélie Artaud 7:34 a.m., November 10, 2022

This Wednesday, the candidates for the presidency of the Republicans put aside their rivalries for the time of a tribute to General de Gaulle in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises.

The opportunity for Éric Ciotti, Bruno Retailleau and Aurélien Pradié to highlight the values ​​embodied by Charles de Gaulle, which today seem to be lacking on the right.

The rivalries were put on hold among the Republicans, the time of a tribute to General de Gaulle.

On Wednesday, the three candidates for the presidency of the party went to Colombey-les-deux-Eglises to commemorate the death of the general.

An image of unity in front of the cross of Lorraine, in the middle of the electoral campaign.

This figure of General de Gaulle still remains today a safe haven for LR.

Everyone venerates de Gaulle and sees in him what the right no longer embodies.

A sequence that illustrates the desire of the right to find a leader

For Éric Ciotti, "he was a statesman, with a long-term vision guided by greatness, a sense of the general interest, of the common good".

An observation shared by Bruno Retailleau, who also considers that the general embodies depth of mind.

The candidate claims the ideological refoundation of a party that has lacked new ideas for years.

"He had this expression 'at the bottom of Alexander's victories, we find Aristotle'. The link between political victories and ideas was obvious to him."

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Finally, Aurélien Pradié, younger of the competition, sees in de Gaulle a modern man.

Way to insist on another deficiency of the Republicans.

A new incarnation which, according to him, is struggling to see the light of day.

"When he died, General de Gaulle saw his coffin carried by young people who were under 20 because they were the generation that was coming. And Gaullism is a flame that is transmitted. I am also there to talk about transmission."

The sequence lasts 30 minutes and illustrates for the right the desperate quest of the leader who has been lacking for ten years.