
The President of the Senate wishes to decide between Retailleau, Lisnard, Attal and Philippe by the start of next year
The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher proposes that the candidates from the right and the center come together to define a tie-breaking method aimed at a single presidential candidacy, with Bruno Retailleau, David Lisnard, Gabriel Attal and Édouard Philippe.
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The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher proposed on Saturday to the candidates of the right and the center to meet to discuss a tie-breaking method leading to a single candidacy for the presidential election at the beginning of next year.
Could Retailleau, Lisnard, Attal and Philippe meet to discuss joining just one of them? The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher proposed on Saturday to the candidates of the right and the center to "meet as soon as possible" to discuss "the tie-breaking method" allowing to arrive at a single candidacy for the presidential election "at the beginning of next year", in a declaration sent to AFP.
This meeting around the President of the Senate will be an opportunity “to discuss the tie-breaking method and the community of values which would allow at the beginning of next year to choose the candidate who will present to the French the alternation project essential for the recovery of the country”, assures Larcher, who wants to bring together at the same table Bruno Retailleau (Les Républicains), David Lisnard (Nouvelle Énergie), Gabriel Attal (Renaissance) and Édouard Philippe (Horizons), who has always opposed the hypothesis of a primary.
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A meeting between Gérard Larcher and the four candidates will take place to discuss a tie-breaking method.
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