IVG in the Constitution, floods in Pas-de-Calais, presidential election 2027… Xavier Bertrand’s “8:30 am franceinfo”

The LR president of the Hauts-de-France region and founder of the “Nous France” movement was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Wednesday February 28, 2024.

Xavier Bertrand, LR president of the Hauts-de-France region and founder of the “Nous France” movement, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Wednesday February 28, 2024. Inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, reparations for victims floods in Pas-de-Calais, LR candidacies for the 2027 presidential election… He answered questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Jérôme Chapuis.

IVG in the Constitution: “We have already been wrong in the past”

Before the Senate vote on the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, this Wednesday, Xavier Bertrand addresses the senators Les Républicains (LR), in the majority with the centrists. “I ask them to vote so that the right to abortion, that everything contained in the Veil law is enshrined, protected in the Constitution”, says the LR president of the Hauts-de-France region. The wording of the text raises eyebrows among some senators from the right and the center, who are defending an amendment to delete the word “guarantee” in favor of a simple “freedom”. “It must be a guarantee”insists Xavier Bertrand. “We have already been wrong in the past”, he says to the LRs in the upper assembly. He cites the example of marriage for all in 2013. “At the time, we did not hear the aspirations of these people of the same sex who wanted to get married. We did not hear their cry, we did not hear their sincerity”he recalls.

Ukraine: Emmanuel Macron should not “worry” the French

Emmanuel Macron “has a duty to think about all options, but must refrain from talking about them”believes Xavier Bertrand, while the President of the Republic affirmed that sending Western troops to Ukraine could not “be excluded”. The head of state must “protect the French, not worry them”, retorts the president of the Hauts-de-France region. It’s necessary “Amplify our support for Ukraine by providing the weapons and ammunition promised to Ukraine. We must massively help Ukraine, not in declarations, but in actions” he insisted.

Aid to Ukraine: “There is an urgent need to restore the balance of power with Putin’s Russia,” declares Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region pic.twitter.com/GidOSrmvSh

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Floods: “Why don’t all insurers play the game?”

After the floods of recent months in Pas-de-Calais, “it’s dragging on the insurers’ side”is indignant Xavier Bertrand. “Why don’t all the insurers play the game? We wrote, with Jean-Claude Leroy, the president of the Pas-de-Calais department, to France Assureurs, that they move their members!”launches the president of Les Républicains (LR) of the Hauts-de-France region.

“We have been talking about losses since November. There are individuals who have still not been compensated!”

Xavier Bertrand

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“It’s been three weeks.” since Gabriel Attal’s last trip alongside the victims and “there is still no” of hotlines, which the president of the region had requested from the Prime Minister, to explain to the population the conditions of compensation.

2027: Laurent Wauquiez, “he’s Eric Ciotti’s candidate”

Laurent Wauquiez, “c“is the candidate of Eric Ciotti, it is not the candidate of LR and not the candidate of the right in the broad sense”, supports Xavier Bertrand. The LR president of Hauts-de-France, who came fourth in the first round of the LR congress in 2021, with 22% of the votes, announced his candidacy for the 2027 presidential election on Saturday February 3 in an interview given to West France .

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