Presidential: Rachida Dati calls on Republicans to give up the primary – franceinfo

Thanks, but no thanks. In an interview published on Monday August 30 by Le Parisien / Today in France, former Minister of Justice Rachida Dati calls on Republicans to “close the hypothesis of the primary” for the presidential election and to meet again “behind a single candidate in January”.

Regretting that Republicans don’t learn “no [leur] experience and [leurs] past errors concerning the primary: hatred, divisions, slingshots “, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris “call [sa] political family to close the hypothesis of the primary “.

I don’t understand our rush. We are only in August. I would rather be in favor of everyone campaigning and ending up behind a single candidate in January.

Rachida Dati

to the “Parisian”

Rachida Dati believes that“To date, there is no obvious candidacy”. “I will support and campaign for the sole candidate of the right and the center”, she adds.

Five right-wing personalities are applying for a possible primary (Valérie Pécresse, Michel Barnier, Eric Ciotti, Philippe Juvin, Denis Payre). A possibility rejected by Xavier Bertrand, who also declared his candidacy for the presidential election. LR will decide on the organization or not of a primary during a congress on September 25, with the aim of nominating its candidate at the end of November.