Les Républicains: Eric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau will compete in second round for Party Presidency

The two candidates, who have gathered 42.73 % and 34.45 % of members of the members, will decide on next weekend.

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A second round will be necessary to decide between Eric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau in the race for the presidency of the Les Républicains party, according to the results announced on Sunday December 4 by the president by interim training, Annie Genevard. Mr. Ciotti collected 42.73 % of the votes and Mr. Retailleau 34.45 %. The third candidate, Aurélien Pradié, harvested 22.29 % of sufficient. Participation reached 72.67%, and the second round will take place during the weekend of December 10 and 11.

The new president of the Republicans will have a heavy task: the party plays no more or less its survival. After three successive defeats in the presidential election, including the last two in the first round, LR saw its political surface reduce. His group in the Assembly is now made up of sixty-two deputies when the national rally has 89.

During the campaign, the candidates have continued to harden the tone, anxious to mark their difference with the Macronie, even if the LR deputies punctually bring the votes necessary to have texts vote.

Some elected officials push, at the same time, to go further in the alliance with Emmanuel Macron, like the mayor of La Baule Franck Louvrier, who In the Sunday Journal calls to” conclude a government contract “, under penalty of seeing any reform” stopped in the country “.

/Media reports cited above.