The Republicans want to lay the foundations of their renewal while waiting for the incarnation
Francois-Xavier Bellamy, Bruno Retailleau, Éric Ciotti, Gérard Larcher, Francois Baroin and Annie Genevard, in Paris, January 24, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP ANALYSIS – The right organizes its states general on Saturday…
The Republicans want to lay the foundations of their renewal while waiting for the incarnation
Francois-Xavier Bellamy, Bruno Retailleau, Éric Ciotti, Gérard Larcher, Francois Baroin and Annie Genevard, in Paris, January 24, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP
ANALYSIS – The right organizes its states general on Saturday in Paris to understand its failures and define the axes of its reconstruction.
By offering Republicans the opportunity to engage in lucid and “without taboos” their strengths and weaknesses, Eric Ciotti wants to ask thesestates general of the right for Franceas the first stone of an essential reconstruction.
During the internal campaign for the presidency of the party, after the historic earthquake of a 4.78% presidential defeat in the first round, we remember that all the candidates in the running had pointed out the absolute need to rebuild the movement “from the ground to the ceiling”. In shock, LR had managed to maintain a certain unity around the unsuccessful candidate, Valérie Pécresse. But, inevitably, the internal battle for the presidency of the party had ended up inflaming tensions between the Ciotti, Retailleau and Pradié camps. Once elected, President Ciotti had the difficult task of putting the pieces back together while being faced with a very complicated double challenge: ensuring the cohesion of the first parliamentary battles and launching…
