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The right is looking for a future by launching its “states general”, this Saturday, June 17. A year after the last election and four years before the next, the path is still long for Les Républicains.
In the collective imagination, the expression “states general” echoes a crisis. This is the name that Les Républicains have chosen to give to their big meeting, Saturday June 17, which aimed to restructure the right. And this, while the party is plagued by currents that are torn apart and bitter electoral failures. At the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, Eric Ciotti played humility. He introduced himself as “an activist who, like you, does not want to resign […] to have [sa] political family to play the supporting roles or the auxiliaries of each other”.
Recover from previous failures
Aurélien Pradié, figure of the party, applauded little and looked at his watch a lot. During the pension reform, he had moved to the margins of the party line. The activists seem disillusioned, caught between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. “The current LR, in my humble opinion, it will disappear, and will perhaps be reborn, like the phoenix, from its ashes”even predicts one of them.