Presidential: “We want a single candidate before Christmas”: Laurent Wauquiez calls on the right-wing contenders for the Elysée to meet within 15 days to define a “decision-making method”

"I would like the candidates to meet within two weeks and discuss a tie-breaker (...). The demand that I have and that all the people on the right have is that this is enough: 'You must agree'. We want a single candidate before Christmas", declared Laurent Wauquiez, boss of the DR deputies, about the need, according to him, to have a single candidate for the right in the presidential election. “It’s a butchery. Let this game of massacre stop,” he said in the program “Franc-jeu”, on France 2 and France Inter. “We must add talents rather than pit them against each other.”

Jean-Luc Mélenchon "made himself the spokesperson for the Kremlin", criticizes the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The leader of La France insoumise and presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, "simply made himself the spokesperson for the Kremlin" by believing that it was necessary to consult the populations of Donbass, a region in eastern Ukraine largely occupied and annexed by the Russians, the head of French diplomacy said on Sunday. “Which is obviously unprecedentedly serious, and which in my opinion definitively disqualifies him from exercising the functions to which he aspires,” added Jean-Noël Barrot, on RTL-Public Sénate.

Gabriel Attal once again pleads for a primary from the center and the right. Traveling to Saint-Raphaël (Var), Gabriel Attal, candidate for the Elysée, reiterated his desire to organize a primary from the center and the right, castigating "the small apparatus agreements which disgust the French". “Perhaps for some, it takes more time to be convinced,” he said on Sunday to Edouard Philippe, Horizons candidate, who refuses the idea of ​​this primary. “It’s inevitable,” repeated the former Prime Minister. “No candidate is in the second round except Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.”