“They have to get along: otherwise it’s madness”: between Bruno Retailleau and David Lisnard, the urgency of an agreement between two competitors from the same camp

Bruno Retailleau and David Lisnard are due to meet at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday for lunch in a Parisian restaurant, not far from the Senate, in the presence of Robert Ménard, at the initiative of this meeting.

Recently, the three men met at the Montpellier court, where the mayor of Béziers was on trial for his refusal to marry a French woman and an Algerian man in an irregular situation, subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). The meeting was therefore scheduled well before the new polls favorable to the mayor of Cannes.

If the councilor does not wish to comment on developments, he suggests that all this is the result of constant field work which made it possible to reach, on Tuesday, the claimed threshold of 71,000 members. “Heading for 100,000!” “, we blurt out.

In the corridors of the headquarters, we carefully follow the trajectory of the Cannes resident, taking care to mask a certain discouragement. When, at LR, those who do not hold its president in their hearts say: “Hard, tough, for Bruno…” A deputy whispers: “We didn’t need that, that’s clear. »