After the rout, LR is looking for a leader to rebuild
DECRYPTION – Invited to elect their new leader and to clarify their ideological line, the LR party must succeed in making itself heard. At the risk, otherwise, of disappearing.
“We are in mortal danger.” Like Éric Ciotti, declared candidate for the presidency of LR, many elected officials are worried about the disappearance of the party. While the right has become an essential cog in the presidential majority to get texts voted on in Parliament and avoid dissolution, Les Républicains, considerably weakened after three presidential defeats, are looking for a voice to exist. And above all, avoid sinking permanently...
But how to be heard when two of their leaders, Laurent Wauquiez and Xavier Bertrand, have already realized that their future and their ambitions will not go through the party? How to oppose Emmanuel Macron when many government texts are voted on in the Assembly by elected LR? How to position oneself in relation to the government during the examination of the next budget when the right defends the reduction of public expenditure and the debt? So many questions that Les Républicains will have to decide quickly…