“There’s something special about the photo, isn’t it? » Pierre Regnault still smiles. Like many, the former socialist mayor of La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) widened his eyes at a photo of Bruno Retailleau embracing Philippe de Villiers (1)on the Vendée Globe pontoons, Sunday November 10, at the start of the race. “It’s really the father who finds his son…”
The image was all the more surprising given that the two figures of the conservative, if not sovereignist, right, once inseparable, had ignored each other for fifteen years. A divorce recorded in two stages: the ostracization of Bruno Retailleau from Puy du Fou, at the end of 2009, followed, a few months later, by his taking power in the Department after having outvoted his ex-mentor.
It is obviously over with the vexations and other treason trials. As in 2015, when Philippe de Villiers commented on the regional election campaign: “It has been proven that Vendée was, for my successor, only a springboard. The intoxication of power takes him far from his roots. » A priori, the water has since flowed into the Sables-d'Olonne channel. “They talked about everything and nothing: the Vendée, the Vendée Globe, the minister’s subjects [de l’Intérieur]
