EXCLUSIVE – Militanism on the right finds colors while the competition is believing. On Thursday, a few hours before closing the list of voters, the party aimed at the bar of 115,000 members and was confident on the rate of participation in the internal election on May 17.
The Republicans membership campaign, organized for the election of the new LR party president, will end Thursday evening at midnight, a month before the final vote scheduled for May 17. This first step crossed, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez, the two candidates in the running, must now encourage participation, with the hope of obtaining the greatest number of voters on D -day.
The data collected by Le Figaro On April 15, a few hours before the closure of the voters’ list, testify to a real return of members, probably stronger than the mobilization usually observed in the internal elections. It must be recognized that the Republicans come back from far away, after the resounding failure of the last 2022 presidential election, marked by a catastrophic passage below the 5%mark, then the earthquake of September 2024, caused by the departure of Eric Ciotti. The day after the failure of the right in the European elections, the president of the party had concluded an alliance with Marine Le Pen in the name of the Union of Laws.
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