In Paris, Laurent Wauquiez's interested support for Rachida Dati to retake the city from the left

Last week, Laurent Wauquiez's entourage spilled the beans. In the battle, in the Paris federation, for the election to the presidency of the Republicans (LR) party, on May 17 and 18, "a lot of work will be done to say all the good things we think of Rachida Dati." A promise kept on Monday, April 28. "We have an absolute duty to win Paris. We are incredibly lucky to have a candidate I have always supported, who is Rachida Dati," declared the leader of the LR deputies during a public meeting in the ^7th arrondissement of Paris, the one where the Minister of Culture is mayor. And he intends to "do everything possible" to do so.

Even when one claims to be the defender of peripheral France and rural areas, Paris is well worth a political mass for the deputy of Haute-Loire, but also a former (good) student of the Lycée Victor-Duruy, neighbor of the brasserie where he held meetings. If the candidate likes to highlight his Auvergne roots, he measures the importance of the capital, the main LR federation with more than 10,000 members and which leans – like its president, Agnès Evren – towards his rival, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. In the city, the liberal conservative discourse of the Vendéen seduces a bourgeois electorate, especially in the ^15th , ^16th and ^17th arrondissements, where 60% of LR members are concentrated.

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