Elementary right: to Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the UDI will not go “in these circumstances” – The Express

Is the decision final? Failing agreement, the UDI gives up for now to present a candidate for the primary right. “This will be the primary right, the center,” said Tuesday Jean-Christophe Lagarde, head of the UDI, Paris Match. The center could therefore not be represented during the poll which aims to identify the right candidate for the presidential election of 2017.

“internal divisions among Republicans are too strong. Whether Nicolas Sarkozy or candidates declared so far (Juppe Fillon, Mayor …), none seem able to have a clear line with the center. they are too concerned with their ambitions, their bitterness and grudges to agree. All say they want to work with us, but these are only words. Or they want to await the outcome of the primary, which is too late. in these conditions, the primary right shall take place without us, “he Explain.

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“There were no negotiations or even encounter”

Jean-Christophe Lagarde regrets that there have so far been no discussion and even less agreement between the two parties, conditions for participation of IDU in the primary and a coalition for 2017. “There ‘ there were no negotiations or even encounter. Mandated by the direction of the IDU, I sent in January to Nicolas Sarkozy an official letter in which I fixed the terms of a prior agreement to our participation in the primary. I n ‘I never got an answer. neither him or anybody, “said Jean-Christophe Lagarde.

The UDI wants a common program base and constituencies for the legislative elections of 2017, between one quarter and one third. The requirements for the time been ignored. Can give change if LR made a gesture towards the UDI?

The party would have everything to gain for Jean-Christophe Lagarde who believes that “when the right and center are united, we win. In four regions, the right does not have a majority without us” . It has produced no information on a possible candidacy of IDUs in the presidential election.

The activists, however, are called upon to decide on the participation of the IDU to the primary right. The decision will be made on March 20 by the party cadres in joint session at Versailles.

The outstretched hand Juppe

Already, Alain Juppe played appeasement and has reached out to centrists. In a letter sent Tuesday to Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the former Prime Minister wrote join the boss of the IDU on “the need to establish today the foundations of a government agreement”. On legislative June 2017, the mayor of Bordeaux propose to “renew confidence in incumbents who wish” (centrists have 29 MPs) but considers however “premature” or “moved” to “make nominative investitures “for not outgoing. Alain Juppé ensures UDI ensure that anyway to “balance” the “different elements” of a “future presidential majority.” “If you were to decide not to participate in the primary, which désolerait me, these principles could nevertheless be applied after the first round of the presidential (…)”, he concluded.