On the set of TF1, Monday evening, the presidential candidate indicated that he would participate in the Congress of Republicans scheduled for December 4. The president of the Hauts-de-France region had previously indicated his refusal of an open primary for 2022.
“Yes, I will attend this Congress.” Monday evening, on the set of TF1, Xavier Bertrand decided: the president of the Hauts-de-France region, presidential candidate, decided to submit to the vote of the Republican activists on December 4. The politician motivated his choice by the fact that the LR party gave up the primary, which he considered “a source of divisions”.
➡ About the Congress #LR
️@xavierbertrand “Yes, I will attend this congress”
On #DIRECT on @ TF1 >https://t.co/96hUAEvmrPpic.twitter.com/bfNcWcG7da
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“The easy way out was to go it alone” but “I will participate in Congress because the Republicans have ruled out the primary”, he said, believing that this congress “is the only way to have it as quickly as possible a candidate from the right and the center “.
“The only way to get a candidate as quickly as possible”
“This is the only way to have a candidate from the right and the center as quickly as possible” and to avoid “the confrontation,” added the candidate, thanking the militants of the party which he left in 2017. “I want to bring together all the French, so I have to start with my political family,” said the ex-LR leader, who has long been opposed to any primary.
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