“His economic program is nonsense”: in front of parliamentarians, Bruno Retailleau targets Marine Le Pen

Meet at “Concorde”, an address quite familiar to parliamentarians. A name, too, which comes at the right time as Bruno Retailleau seeks to ward off the accusations of a solitary presidential candidacy. It is to this Parisian brasserie, a few steps from the National Assembly, that the president of the Republicans (LR) invited the senators and deputies who sponsored him on Wednesday (even if, some slip, “others have joined in”).

“Come up a little, we can’t see you!”, we say to the audience, while the Vendéen stands at the foot of the stairs. “Okay, I’ll go up one step so people can see me,” smiles the protagonist. Before launching, microphone in hand: “I need your commitment. Alone, I will not win. With you, I can.” This mobilization of troops is undoubtedly necessary while Bruno Retailleau is stagnating in the opinion polls. “We are in a maritime landscape, there is a form of calm,” he explains.