Members of the Republicans began voting on Wednesday to nominate their presidential candidate, opening a four-day, two-round ballot that promises to be tight.
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Beginning of the votes. The members of the Republicans began, since 8 am Wednesday, December 1, to vote to nominate their presidential candidate for 2022. Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti, Valérie Pécresse and the outsider Philippe Juvin present themselves at this LR congress. The winner will be known on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The turnout reached 64% on Wednesday at 9:15 p.m., that is “more than 90,000 voters”, advanced on franceinfo the senator of the Channel Philippe Bas, in charge of the control of the LR congress.
“What is positive is to see a real dynamic, an interest, a desire”, estimated Philippe Bas. “The goal would be for everyone to vote. The number of additional members recorded by the movement is an indication of a desire to vote. It is a first step towards regaining confidence in a force of alternation. “
The first round will end Thursday at 2 p.m. “Voters can continue to vote overnight”, said Senator LR. The second between the two finalists will take place from Friday 8 am to Saturday 2 pm. A brief meantime that does not displease the party: “We don’t want there to be blood on the walls. We don’t want negotiations, knives under our throats, things have to go quickly and well”, said the spokesperson of the party, Gilles Platret, on BFMTV.
The vote promises to be very open, each of the four “big” candidates being able to claim the second round, especially as the approach of the congress has attracted new members. In total, 140,000 people will be able to vote, a far cry from some 4 million voters in 2016, but it was then an open primary where everyone, for two euros and a profession of faith, could vote.