In an interview with Le Parisien, Jean-Christophe Lagarde pleads for a “gathering” with a candidate The Republicans.
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He won’t go. The president of the center-right UDI party, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, will not be a candidate for the presidential election and “wish” one “gathering” can be done with a candidate The Republicans, he said in an interview with Parisian (paid item), published Monday 8 November.
The presidential “We are not going there to play but to win. We must succeed in creating a rally, am I in the best position to create it? The answer is no. I therefore hope that this rally can be done with an LR candidate, because only a candidate from the right and the center can prevent the French from being prisoners of a Macron choice by default “, estimates the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Among the five contenders for the nomination The Republicans, “We are going to hear Xavier Bertrand, Philippe Juvin and Valérie Pécresse who have accepted, to exchange views, to discuss a majority program. The UDI National Council will say on November 27 its preference for one of the three”, specifies the former mayor of Drancy, adding thatEric Ciotti and Michel Barnier refused to be auditioned. LR members must nominate their candidate at a party congress on December 4.