2027 Presidential Election: Laurent Wauquiez calls on the right to choose, quickly

This morning on Franceinfo, Laurent wauquiez He pulled out the megaphone: he said he was "sounding the alarm" against the "recklessness" of a right wing that is fracturing as 2027 approaches. The president of the LR (Les Républicains) deputies is pushing for a primary to select a single candidate, otherwise the second round could become a trap, a duel between La France Insoumise (LFI) and the National Rally (RN). "We don't realize the responsibility we would have" by letting the French "choose between the RN and Jean-Luc Mélenchon," he insisted, also noting that the leader of La France Insoumise is often underestimated in the polls.

In this sequence, Wauquiez also slips in an internal recognition: Bruno Retailleau is, according to him, the "legitimate candidate" of the Republicans, "a little less than 40.000 activists" having expressed their views, while assuring that he will not be a candidate in 2027 and that the recent quarrels within the party are "over".

The risk of a second round without the right

The leader of the Republican Right group in the National Assembly is primarily targeting fragmentation: "Almost every week, we have a new candidate" on the right, he remarked, and the image speaks for itself, a mosaic that is cracking before it's even been laid. His ideal primary would be broad, ranging from Macron supporter Gérald Darmanin to Sarah Knafo (Reconquête!), proof that he's less concerned with party affiliations than with electoral arithmetic, with names like Édouard Philippe, Xavier Bertrand, and David Lisnard, already launched with Nouvelle Énergie, also in his sights.

Gabriel Attal, for his part, was sidelined because he "did not share the same political project." Wauquiez criticized the idea of ​​"uniting the left and the right," a coalition which, in his view, moves the country forward "not vigorously." Nevertheless, the call for unity, within a political family marked by the 2022 debacle, opens a subtle but real battle: the battle over the timing, the rules, and the referee, even before the election itself.