Presidential: Retailleau proposes to set the primary for January 31 and February 7, 2027, “time to define the modalities and campaign”

Bruno Retailleau may not be the father of this right and center primary project, but he now wants to become its project manager. Almost a week after having rallied on BFMTV to the idea of ​​Gabriel Attal, judging this tie-breaker inevitable between now and the start of next year, the LR presidential candidate is putting forward two dates: next Sunday, January 31 and February 7. That’s almost three months, the time “to define the modalities and lead the campaign”. A schedule submitted this Tuesday in letters sent not only to its rival Renaissance and its competitor Nouvelle Énergie, David Lisnard, but especially to the boss of Horizons, Édouard Philippe, the only one of the four to refuse the exercise.

Never mind: the former Minister of the Interior intends to make him change his mind, judging this refusal to be unfounded in one of these missives, consulted by Le Figaro. Especially since five months before the first round, “none of them is (…) able, alone, to create…