Has the right found in Bruno Retailleau a face likely to embody its future? That’s the question. The LR, electorally defeated, miraculously found political space thanks to the carabistouilles of Emmanuel Macron and his dissolution. The appointment of Michel Barnier is the symbol of this, but certainly not a lasting promise. By entering the government, the former senator from Vendée bet that Place Beauvau was not the worst lever to get his hands on his political family, something he had not managed to do during the presidential (he threw in the towel during the primary), or during the last LR congress, beaten in the second round by… Eric Ciotti. As soon as the Barnier government was formed, he established himself as one of its rare strong men.
It wasn’t very complicated between us. Beyond the weakness or lack of notoriety of most of his colleagues, Bruno Retailleau has significant cards in his hands: he is intelligent, structured, undeniably cultivated and, say those who frequent him, including among his adversaries, courteous. There remains the question of political line. She is very, very right-wing. Very very conservative. Very very Catholic. Very very very focused on “order, order, order”, with immigration established as almost the sole problem of French society. This leaves whole areas where the Minister of the Interior seems to have nothing to say. We will only cite two, difficult not to put at the heart of our country’s problems: adaptation to climate change, the place given to youth.
The fact remains that this “traditional” or “reactionary” right, never really recovered from May 68, obviously corresponds to a current of historical thought on this side of the political spectrum. He has even had the wind at his back for several years, in France or elsewhere around the world. Bruno Retailleau nevertheless has a major obstacle in front of him: the RN. How to escape the trap of copying the original? LR is in any case today too weak for the question of the alliance with the extreme right not to impose itself on the former close friend of François Fillon. And he will have difficulty explaining what sets him apart. But we are betting that seeing the conservative “revolution” triumph will be, for Bruno Retailleau, more important than being at the head of the gondola. Hence the danger.
Source: www.liberation.fr
