Presidential 2022. Candidate for the nomination of the Republicans, Xavier Bertrand in Toulouse
Through Guillaume Laurens
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Of the six candidates for the internal election of Republicans in the race for the Élysée, he is the one with the best chances of making it to the second round, if the polls are to be believed: Xavier Bertrand comes to meet activists in Toulouse, Saturday 23 October 2021.
Public meeting and stroll
A few weeks after the arrival of Valérie Pécresse, who estimated “that there is only the right to raise France”, Xavier Bertrand will also campaign in the Pink City. In the running for the Congress of Republicans, where the LR candidate will be appointed on December 4, the president of the Hauts-de-France Region will notably hold a public meeting Barcelona room at 3 pm, before going to meet the press, two hours later, in a café on the Place du Capitole. He should then perform a stroll in the city center of Toulouse, in particular rue d’Alsace-Lorraine.
Former Minister of Health and Labor
Xavier Bertrand, 56, was health Minister of the Villepin government under Jacques Chirac, then Minister of Labor of the Fillon government under Nicolas Sarkozy.
Elected to Saint-Quentin (Aisne), where he was notably mayor and deputy, he was elected president of the new Hauts-de-France region in 2015 with 57.8% of the vote, in a duel at daggers drawn against Marine Le Pen (RN), before being reelected in a triangular in 2021 (52.37%).
He took his card back from LR
Xavier Bertrand, who had been secretary general of the UMP from 2008 to 2010, had left The Republicans in 2017, in disagreement with the party line, after the election of Laurent Wauquiez.
After having formalized his candidacy for the Elysee Palace, he assured that he would not be a candidate for any internal nomination process for the presidential election, before to flip-flop, by announcing that he would participate in the Congress of Republicans, but also that he would take back to his card at LR.
Who are the six Republican nomination contestants?
Six right-wing personalities will participate in the Congress of Republicans to nominate the LR candidate for the 2022 presidential election: Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse, Philippe Juvin, Éric Ciotti and Denis Payre.
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