One more candidate to run for the head of the Republicans. The secretary general of the party, Aurélien Pradié, formalized, Monday, September 12, his candidacy for the presidency of the party for “rebuild” the “popular right” and avoid a “leader war”. “I want the right to talk about everything, about every concern of the French, and that it talks to everyone, from the most humble to the most favored”declared the deputy of Lot in the columns of the Figaro (article for subscribers).
He will face in the first round of the election, scheduled for December 3, his colleague from the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, holding a hard line on the sovereign, and the boss of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, from the conservative wing. . “With Eric and Bruno, we respect each other”but “their candidacies are similar”judges the 36-year-old elected official by assuring that his “is different”.
The party is “today in mortal danger” and “we have to change everything: the name, the headquarters, our organization, our message”assures Aurélien Pradié who wants “assume the break, including with Nicolas Sarkozy”. Often suspected in his own camp of being too left-wing, he says to himself “fully right-wing”. He advances firm ideas on immigration, in particular for “make all residence permits probationary” for three years and to create “a specialized court”.
On ecology, “economically, socially and morally priority”he promises “a broad debate on the question of water”. “I will open the debate on the hyper-consumption society”he adds, specifying “always refuse degrowth”. He also pleads for a pension reform “on the basis of annuities worked” and a sharp increase in teachers’ salaries “in return for a longer time spent teaching”.