Who will be the new boss of the right?
The 91,110 members of the Republicans will soon designate their leader this weekend.
They can start voting, this Saturday at 6 p.m., for the first round of the election of the new president of the right-wing party, who must decide between deputies Eric Ciotti and Aurélien Pradié and the boss of senators Bruno Retailleau.
Voting, electronic, will continue until Sunday at 6 p.m.
The results should be announced immediately.
Eric Ciotti, favorite figure
The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, who takes a hard line on the sovereign, the president of the group of senators Bruno Retailleau of the conservative-liberal wing and the deputy of Lot Aurélien Pradié, cantor of a popular right, should pass at party headquarters after the announcement of the results.
In the absence of a poll, predictions are difficult, even if Eric Ciotti, finalist in the 2021 primary, is the favorite.
He received the support of Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and former party boss.
Bruno Retailleau, curator from Philippe de Villiers' Movement for France, has a long list of supporters.
As for Aurélien Pradié, younger than his two competitors, and with a social fiber, he will have the status of outsider.
The new president, who will succeed Christian Jacob, will have the difficult task of redressing the party, caught between the macronie and the National Rally.
The right remains on the scathing failure of its presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse (4.8%).
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