
In Pursuit of the Lost Right-Winger
With French politics in disarray, the man who revives the Right could have a shot at the presidency, boosted by Macronism’s collapse and Le Pen’s legal troubles.

With French politics in disarray, the man who revives the Right could have a shot at the presidency, boosted by Macronism’s collapse and Le Pen’s legal troubles.
“All the dangerous OQTFs [deportees] to Saint Pierre and Miquelon. I stick to my guns,” said Wauquiez, who proposed the idea.

Two years before the election, two men with little to show in terms of fully embracing right-wing politics vie for the leadership of Les Républicains.

The political line that Laurent Wauquiez wants to promote is a conservative one that stands in opposition to wokism and the revival of the extreme Left with the NUPES.

Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, has just announced that he would put an end to the public subsidy previously granted to the branch of Institut d’Etudes Politiques located in Grenoble due to its “ideological and communitarian drift.”