Among the activists who came on Sunday, May 11, afternoon, supported Bruno Retailleau, is Laurent (who did not wish to give his name, like the other people cited by their sole first name), 65 years old. Politics is “Not his thing”. However, he took his member card from the Party Les Républicains (LR) a few weeks ago, just for the Minister of the Interior “And his personality”.
It is one of the more than 2,400 people, according to figures from the organizers, gathered at the Biodiversity Gymnasium in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) for the last candidate Retailleau campaign, given in the race for the presidency of the Republicans against the deputy of Haute-Loire, Laurent Wauquiez.
A position that does not always encourage audacity. To counter the idea of a purring campaign against an ever more offensive Laurent Wauquiez, Bruno Retailleau’s team chose Boulogne-Billancourt for a meeting with the appearance of a force demonstration. The place is not chosen at random. The room carries the history of the party, which welcomed the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy as well as the former candidates of the party for the presidential election, François Fillon in 2017 then Valérie Pécresse in 2022.
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