More discreet than the other candidates for the nomination The Republicans for the presidential election 2022, Michel Barnier is the guest of the 20 hours newspaper of France 2, Tuesday, November 2. He will be interviewed for the occasion by Anne-Sophie Lapix, Nathalie Saint-Cricq and Mohamed Bouhafsi from 8:22 pm. Follow our live.
More than 700 sponsorships. This Tuesday marks the deadline for the submission of sponsorships of candidates for Congress of the Republicans. Michel Barnier’s team claims 702 sponsorships, coming from more than 80 departments. That is much more than the 250 signatures required to validate his candidacy. A way for the former minister, aged 70, to claim a form of internal plebiscite.
“Remontada” of the former MEP. Long underestimated in the presidential race, Michel Barnier seems to come back up to his two main right-wing opponents, Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand. Better known internationally after years in Brussels, the former minister of Jacques Chirac and then Nicolas Sarkozy is the only one of the three main candidates for the nomination not to have left Les Républicains, although not having settled his membership in 2019. A loyalty that could pay off during the LR congress which will be held from December 1 to 4 and which must decide between the finalists. The presidents of federations voted for it, according to a survey conducted by franceinfo in mid-October.
The candidate for appeasement? Michel Barnier poses as a candidate for reconciliation. VSthis campaign “must not be a campaign of controversy, aggression and attacks”, said the former European Commissioner during a public meeting in Maisons-Alfort (Val-de-Marne) at the end of October, ensuring: “I am not an altar boy”. “We do not improvise a candidate” corn “I feel ready”, asserted the former Brexit negotiator.