“Laurent Wauquiez, a presidential candidate between betting discretion and the risk of disappearance”

Laurent Wauquiez. THOMAS COEX/AFP

This was his first commitment as a candidate: he, president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti would have Laurent Wauquiez appointed as LR champion for the presidential election “from the beginning of 2023”. Ciotti was elected, 2023 has arrived, but there is no longer any question of rushing to launch the presidential campaign. The right already has enough to do with the question of pensions which undermines its cohesion as much as its coherence. In leadership, there is procedure and there is evidence. And if the president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has never asked that we freeze the first, he would like the second to prevail. Without having to get out of the woods too early. In politics, the question of the calendar is the most delicate to manage, especially since it is only at the end that we know if the choice was judicious or not. To leave too early is to take the risk of being grilled, but to leave too late is to take the risk of being grilled.

Wauquiez pretends not to fear the second hypothesis. He doesn’t believe in a…