Overview
- On BFMTV, LR leader Bruno Retailleau said any “union of the right” must be forged by voters rather than through party accords.
- He placed the Rassemblement national within the “republican arc,” contrasted it with LFI, and appealed to RN backers as often former LR voters.
- Retailleau set out a three-part platform focused on making work pay more than welfare, tougher authority with reduced immigration, and reviving national pride, while touring the country to build support.
- Nicolas Sarkozy writes in a new book that he will not join a “front républicain” against the RN and urges the broadest possible rassemblement on the right.
- LR remains divided ahead of local races, with Laurent Wauquiez urging “anything but LFI,” Xavier Bertrand rejecting both LFI and RN, and cases in Béziers and Marseille exposing tactical rifts.