Primary Republicans: the campaign between the five candidates on the right is accelerating with a first debate – archyworldys

Five candidates gathered on a platform, two hours of debate, four themes addressed … Less than a month before the congress and the vote (1^er-4 December) during which members of the Les Républicains (LR) party will nominate their candidate for the presidential election, a first debate between the five postulants is held on Monday, November 8, on RTL and LCI. Three others are scheduled before November 30, the day before the first round which takes place on 1^er December.

For this first debate, Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier, Valérie Pécresse, Eric Ciotti and Philippe Juvin, will try to mark their difference without breaking into pieces and thus compromising the unity of the movement. Each will first have a minute to explain what will be his first decree and his first trip as President of the Republic. Sitting on the set, they will then tackle four themes: economy, immigration, society (including security and secularism) and then international. At the end of the program, everyone will have one minute to conclude.

These debates go “To help us come together even better”, said the LR president of the Senate Gérard Larcher on Sunday, ensuring that the right, eliminated in the first round in 2017, “Is not so quartered as that”. “The Republican family is coming together, coming together, and I have more confidence in the quality of the debates that we are going to have”, he added. “The games are open”, estimates for his part the leader of the deputies LR, Damien Abad, support of Xavier Bertrand. “It’s very difficult to make a prognosis, there is very high volatility”, he admits. Especially since the party now has 112,000 members, against 80,000 in September, which may change the motivations of the vote and make the outcome of the ballot uncertain.

” Family photo “

Aware of the impact of the televised debates during the primary of the right and the center in 2016 in the dynamics of the winner, François Fillon, each will push its assets to stand out: Xavier Bertrand, boss of the Hauts-de-France region , has the polls for him and ease in debates. Valérie Pécresse, the only woman in the group, maintains an image of competence reinforced by her presidency of the Ile-de-France region. Several times minister and European negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier presents the image of a seasoned leader, even if he passes to be less comfortable in the televised exercise than his two main rivals.

As for Eric Ciotti, he defends a project ” a break “ very right on national identity or authority. Finally, Philippe Juvin, mayor of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), plays on his experience as an elected official and doctor at the time of the Covid-19.

The day after this first debate, the five candidates will go to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises (Haute-Marne) on Tuesday afternoon with the boss of the Republicans party, Christian Jacob, for the 51^e anniversary of the death of General de Gaulle and display the unity of the movement, less than a month before the congress. And Mr. Abas to prevent: ” [Après le verdict des adhérents le 4 décembre, il faudra] that we have everyone in the family photo, that we give the image of a united, renewed right wing, which has this furious desire to win. “

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