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Christian Jacob believes that the Republicans will “create a surprise” in the legislative elections The boss of the Republicans (LR), Christian Jacob, assured on Tuesday that his party would “create a surprise” in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 and “be a decisive actor” to weigh in the next five-year term. Mr. Jacob nevertheless refused, during a press conference, to make any predictions on the number of winnable seats (LR holds a hundred today, which makes it the main opposition group). “Those who say” the poor, they will disappear “will be at their expense”, for his part assured the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, while LR recorded a historic setback in the presidential election, with 4 .8% of votes. Even if “we are not going to overturn everything and have a majority”, LR “has a card to play on the value of authority, the value of work”, he added. Both spoke after a strategic council which brought together the majority of the leaders, with a few absentees – neither Laurent Wauquiez, nor Eric Ciotti, nor Valérie Pécresse were there. In the Assembly, “the LR deputies are in a position to change things”, added Mr. Jacob, praising “the local anchorage” and the ability of LR to be “force of proposal”. Thus “the texts which go in the right direction, we know how to vote them, the others we know how to oppose firmly” and “we will continue in this spirit”, he added. But LR will “certainly not” be a “stepping stone” for the future majority, he warned. Asked about the “useful vote”, which LR paid for in the presidential election, he estimated: “We are the useful vote, we will be useful to France. Mr. Jacob also tackled “a totally absent government” and its “inability to bring about any reform”, and warned against the risk of “a five-year term for nothing”.