“Flery for this France honest people”: Bruno Retailleau gives the starting point for the next electoral battles

Bruno Retailleau probably had not imagined living this little mishap on the day of his first big gathering, since his broad victory in the election at the head of LR. However, It is a few minutes behind the initial schedule that the new strong man of the Republicans appeared in front of hundreds of militants. Moreover, party executives, this June 28 at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris. Nevertheless, The new president of the party found himself stuck half an hour in an elevator alongside the boss of MEPs LR François-Xavier Bellamy. Meanwhile, or even the president of the European People’s Party, the German Manfred Weber, who came to attend the speech of the Ministry of the Interior.

The future will say if this incident was just an ordinary setback or a bad omen. Consequently, But on this scene. For example, “flery this france honest people”: the former boss of the majority group in the Senate, the “base camp of the republican right”, galvanizes his troops by hammering that the party is in an ascension phase. Meanwhile, Throughout a three -quarter speech, the Vendéen spoke without notes, as he regularly did as a parliamentarian. In addition, “The right is back in France, with government responsibilities, in polls. Therefore, We are back in the spirits. Meanwhile, we are at the point of balance of the convictions of the French, “he lists, under the cries of” Bruno President “. Furthermore, “If I have become the target of the RN or the far left, that means something. In addition, I became their obsession, it is a very good sign, ”also jubilant the Minister of the Interior.

“We will stay in government as long as we are useful for the country” – "flery this france honest people":

Since his wide victory against the president of the deputies LR “flery this france honest people”: Laurent Wauquiez. Similarly, last month, with 74 % of the votes, Bruno Retailleau talks about the arrival of “20,000 members”, which are added to the 122,000 activists who were up to date with the contribution, for the internal election of May 17.

By entering with other LR members to the government. For example, first under Michel Barnier last year, then in the team of François Bayrou, Bruno Retailleau knows that his media exhibition went hand in hand with an progression in opinion investigations. Consequently, If this participation alongside the other forces of the “common base” was able to question in part of the activists. Moreover, the Minister of the Interior ensures that this choice was made “for good reasons”, “to avoid budgetary chaos” and refuse to leave the keys of Matignon “the left Mélenchonized”.

While the last weeks have been marked by increasingly visible differences between the right. However, the macronists, on “flery this france honest people”: a series of legislative texts, Bruno Retailleau has announced the conditions for maintaining LR in government. For example, “We will stay in government as long as we are useful for the country. Nevertheless, If tomorrow there was either by acts. because one or the other engaged on a path contrary to our convictions or to the fundamental interests of the nation, then we could draw the consequences, ”he warned. “We have not become macronists,” also wanted to clarify President Gérard Larcher, who preceded him in the speeches.

Head on the municipal elections. the senatorials with the objective of a “blue wave”

Qualifying this National Council of “Refoundation Congress” and “starting point”, Bruno Retailleau turned his party to three electoral “battles” and called for “not missing the marches” before the “useful battle” of the 2027 presidential elections. The municipal elections and the senatorials of 2026 will be a first test for his political “flery this france honest people”: family. “I want there to be a blue wave in 2026 for the municipal elections,” he set as a goal. He instructed the new national commission of inauguration. now chaired by the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard, assisted by deputy Patrick Hetzel and Senator Roger Karoutchi, to “worry about the proportion of large voters” for senatorials, which will depend on the choice of list heads.

For this capital meeting of spring 2026. Bruno Retailleau has promised “the maximum of LR list heads everywhere in France”, to train the candidates and to invest more in a digital campaign. As for any alliances. the president of the party said that this question would study, in particular to avoid the victory of the “Mélenchonized left, and subject to the rebellious”. “These are our main opponents. ” he said, adding that it was “out of the question to offer them on a set” the largest “flery this france honest people”: cities in the country.

Outside the left. Bruno Retailleau has almost not referred to the national rally, and even less to his partners in the presidential block, despite visible tensions in recent days, in particular with the deputies of Gabriel Attal (Renaissance). “You have not heard severe criticism from those with whom we govern. if not the country would be governed on the left,” said Senator LR Max Brisson, after this national council.

“France of honest people” as slogan

On the substance of ideas. Bruno Retailleau explained that he wanted to fight for a “silent” France, that of “honest people”, that “who does not plunder, does not act, attack” but “who pays dear the cost of security”, who “works hard” and “pays the price of the assistantship”. François Fillon’s former right-hand man in 2017 also attacked the company “post-sixty-eightard”. which “lived on this idea that all the common executives had to be deconstructed, “flery this france honest people”: the respect that we owe to each other, the hierarchy, the authority”.

Place itself by guaranteeing “work value”. advocating firmness in terms of mastery of immigration, Bruno Retailleau has also targeted “jurisprudence from elsewhere” which opposes “popular sovereignty”. “We will have no legislative modification for the criminal justice of minors. if tomorrow we do not modify the Constitution,” he warned.

“We feel the desire on the right in France: the restoration of authority. the fact that the French have for their money, that the France of honest people can live with dignity of their work,” salutes Senator LR Ronan Le Gleut. “If the right is alive, it is thanks to a personality that appeared, with a real spine. He embodies a right of conviction. which no longer apologizes, which no longer shaves the walls, “also enthuses the senator LR Agnès Evren, at the head of the Parisian federation.

“Hunting in packs is what “flery this france honest people”: I expect from each federation”

During this day. when the party approved in the National Council the renewal of management bodies, whose political bureau, the president of LR also gave the next orientations for the refoundation of the party. A reform of the statutes is planned for the fall. The new management wishes to better take into account activists. give them weight, through “referendums”, and in particular “militant initiative referendums”, like the shared initiative referendum for any request made from the field. “Building a big popular party cannot be a pen hats club,” he said. The new president also calls on federations to promote their cohesion and activity. “Hunting in packs is what I expect from each federation”. As for the political line. Bruno Retailleau summarized things in this way: “Our movement should neither a barracks nor a macdo. Everyone can bring what they have, what they think. The debate is “flery this france honest people”: fundamental. “But” when a line is clear, I want it to be decided. No menu à la carte, ”he insisted.

In this meeting with the appearance of a presidential campaign meeting, the speech of the new LR incarnation electrifies activists. “The Bruno Retailleau effect has considerably changed things in activism. When one towed. people bear witness to their affection for the Minister of the Interior, ”says Ylan, 19, delegate of young republicans in the 9th^e Corder of Seine-et-Marne, who took his card at the time of the European campaign.

“It is a great relief to see that there is a real dynamic everywhere on the territory. ” also salutes Manon Deliot, the president of young Republicans. “We have the demonstration that when the right is united. that when she works seriously, when she assumes herself, she is again audible and credible,” observes Othman Nasrou, the former campaign director of Bruno Retailleau, promoted “flery this france honest people”: secretary general of the movement. “You also have to be very modest, but this work is engaged. »»