Talk:2021 The Republicans congress
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Campaign Section
editBelow is the campaign section, which I did not get the chance to look through. The original article, or at least the translation are certainly flawed, with biased and emotive language that I tried to remove through the creation of the article. Link to the French article: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congr%C3%A8s_des_R%C3%A9publicains_de_2021
Xavier Bertrand is the first to embark on the presidential race, March 24, 2021 in an interview in the magazine Le Point where he exposes his refusal to participate in a primary. Following the regional elections, where the boss of Hauts-de-France was widely re-elected, two other right-wing barons potentially candidates for the primary came out reinforced: Laurent Wauquiez and Valérie Pécresse. For his part, the President of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, hopes that François Baroin, despite his refusal, comes forward and becomes the natural candidate. He is also opposed to the primary which he considers responsible for the defeat of the right in the previous election.
On July 5, Laurent Wauquiez, Valérie Pécresse, Bruno Retailleau and Hervé Morin signed a platform in the Figaro in which they demanded the holding of an open primary from the right and the center and refused to submit the question of the candidacy to the polls. The president of the Île-de-France region announced her candidacy on July 22 and was followed 4 days later by the mayor of La Garenne-Colombes, Philippe Juvin. Michel Barnier announces his candidacy on August 26, few hours after Eric Ciotti whileLaurent Wauquiez and Bruno Retailleau give up. Jean Leonetti, in charge of the organization, orders a major survey is entrusted to Ifop, launched among 15,000 supporters where the 4 declared candidates as well as Xavier Bertrand are tested. One last candidate, the entrepreneur Denis Payre, announces that he wants to run.
The result of the investigation shows an advance for Xavier Bertrand, who still refuses to participate in a tie-breaker, but he is closely followed by Valérie Pécresse. This survey should also make it possible to highlight a mode of deciding, but if the idea of a closed congress seems to be the favorite, but the open or semi-open primary remains fairly well received. At the end of a consultation of the members, the choice of the closed congress is retained. The boss of Hauts-de-France, agrees to fall into line and decides to participate in the congress. Apart from Denis Payre, the other five candidates have brought back their 250 sponsorships and begin a tour of France of the federations during the months of October and November in order to meet as many voters as possible and make new ones join, some candidates go as far as to hold three public meetings per day.
Unlike the 2016 primary, the party barons do not vote for any candidate. This is the case of Laurent Wauquiez , Gérard Larcher, Rachida Dati, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Baroin , Christian Jacob, Annie Genevard , Bruno Retailleau , François-Xavier Bellamy... This combined with the fact that the electorate is for nearly half of new members, the outcome of this election remains uncertain/
Debates
At a meeting organized on 20 October 2021, it is decided that the candidates having gathered their 250 sponsorships will participate in four televised and radio debates. The first debate takes place on November 8on LCI and RTL and is hosted by Ruth Elkrief and David Pujadas. It is followed on14 November by a debate on BFMTV and RMC co-hosted by Maxime Switek and Apolline de Malherbe. A third debate takes place on CNews and Europe 1, the21 November co-presented by Laurence Ferrari and Sonia Mabrouk. Finally, Léa Salamé and Laurent Guimier , in their program Élysée 2022 on France 2 and France Inter, hold the last debate on November 30, the day before the opening of the vote.
In addition, the 20 November 2021, the five candidates participated in an oral with a series of questions and answers before the national party council in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
During the televised debates, the dominant themes were security (1 hour and 24 minutes), the European Union and international affairs (1 hour and 2 minutes) and immigration (50 minutes). On the other hand, environmental and social issues received little attention, with 16 minutes devoted to the climate, 2 minutes to poverty or even 3 minutes to housing.