“Today, the Republican right is scattered like a puzzle,” laments Valérie Pécresse.

“Today, the Republican right is scattered like a puzzle”deplores Wednesday July 10 on franceinfo the LR president of the Île-de-France region Valérie Pécresse. The 2024 legislative elections only allowed her party to obtain 38 seats, according to the official results of the Ministry of the Interior.

The Republicans have been weakened by several years of defections, from the departures for the presidential coalition of Gérald Darmanin, Bruno Le Maire and Édouard Philippe to the more recent one of Lot MP Aurélien Pradié who claims his “independence”including the delicate situation of the Alpes-Maritimes MP Éric Ciotti, member of a parliamentary alliance with the extreme right but still president of the Republicans with whom the divorce seems to be a done deal.

Yet, “France has never been so right-wing”, assures Valérie Pécresse, for whom “all the ideas of the right are today ultra-majority in the country”. So according to her it is necessary “rebuild a right, and it is this right that can beat Marine Le Pen in 2027, or perhaps even in 2025 or 2026 if the presidential elections were brought forward.”

This will require bringing together a party “scattered”concedes the regional president. Starting with the ministers of the current government: “We can only build something with Gérald Darmanin and Édouard Philippe if they leave Macronism, take stock of Macronism and return to an avowedly right-wing political family”she explains, before confiding: “I think they’re also a little disappointed with the experience.”