Candidate for the investiture for the presidential election, he had no card at the party since the end of 2017. He will update contributions before the LR Congress in December.
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Xavier Bertrand, President of the Hauts-de-France region and nomination candidate Republicans (LR) for the presidential election, will finally resume his card at the party. The political man who had left the end of December 2017 told BFMTV on Friday 15 October: “In the name of coherence and clarity, I will take part in the vote and therefore adhere to the party again”.
“Xavier Bertrand will be up-to-date contribution for the vote” during the Congress to be held on 4 December, told the world his entourage. The new grave in the aftermath of the rehaudsion announcement to Valérie Pécresse’s party, President of the Ile-de-France Region She also a candidate for investiture and after sending signals contrary to this subject by the President of the Region Hauts-de-France at the beginning of the week.
officially declared a candidate for the internal primary of the party for the presidential election since October 11, Mr. Bertrand, who had left the end of 2017 because of his disagreement with the political line taken under the direction of Laurent Wauquiez, hesitated until At the last moment to participate in the Congress. Tuesday, the day after his announcement, he had first told the Senators LR, that he would not resume his card at the party, but that he remained coherent in his ideas and faithful to his political family. “I left [LR], at the time I explained very clearly, I did not leave my political family, I never joined another party; I have never created other party and I have not betrayed either, “he explained to AFP.
Not” obligation “to join the party, but an incentive
Thursday, Xavier Bertrand’s entourage, however, explained to the world that the issue of party membership remained a problem for LR activists. “It’s going to be hard, we know it. The main obstacle is that he has rendered his card,” highlighted a first-plan elected. To convince the activists of the sincerity of his candidacy, Xavier Bertrand has started this week a tour of the federations he intends to lead until the final vote at the conference.
Pressurized The candidate has left the question of his possible re-accession open from Thursday night. “This is a question that I will ask Christian Jacbob: is there, under the conditions laid by the Organizing Committee [of Congress], this type of things?” He declared On the sidelines of a meeting in Oyonnax in Ain.
In response to this question, the boss of the party Christian Jacob said Friday morning in a Tweet that “there is no obligation to be adherent LR to compete in the designation conference of our candidate otherwise to recognize themselves in the values of the right and From the center “but that” consistency to appear before the activists is to be self-employed in LR “. An incentive to rejoin the Republicans again, this time heard Mr. Bertrand.