Michel Barnier warns against any “controversial campaign” among LR candidates – Franceinfo

The call for calm just over a month before the election. Michel Barnier, who hopes to represent the right in the presidential election, warned Tuesday, October 26 against any “controversial campaign” or d‘”aggressiveness” by the nomination of the Republican candidate on December 4.

While the six candidates in the running multiply trips and interviews, this campaign “must not be a campaign of controversy, aggressiveness and attacks”, said the former European Commissioner during a public meeting in Maisons-Alfort (Val-de-Marne), ensuring: “I am not an altar boy”. “We do not improvise a candidate” corn “I feel ready”, said the former Brexit negotiator, who is considered one of the favorites of the December 4 congress.

“I do not know if I am the favorite, an election is won on election day. It is not the polls, the little musics that make the election”, told journalists the former minister, credited with 8 to 10% in the polls in the first round of the presidential election, less than Xavier Bertrand.

For him, “what is important is that we respect each other” while the right “is in a serious and demanding situation”. “We have a very serious responsibility. If we do not win it, we must fear the worst. If we are not present in the second round, the risk of explosion exists. So many people on the right and on the left want to recover pieces of our political family! “ , he added in front of a room of 150 people.