Lyon (AFP) – MP (UMP) and Mayor of Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), Laurent Wauquiez, formalized his candidacy Thursday to lead the list of the right in regional elections in Rhône-Alpes Auvergne, while his rival, Michel Barnier, appealed to the arbitration of Nicolas Sarkozy.
“I am running to bring a new breath, a new dynamic to our region who needs” said Secretary General of the UMP at a press conference in Lyon.
In the race for the nomination, Mr. Wauquiez facing him former European Commissioner Michel Barnier, candidate said contestant UMP since October.
The Mayor of Puy-en-Velay, whose candidacy was approached several months ago, has already registered the support of many elected UMP future Rhône-Alpes -Auvergne including eight members of the party in the Rhône but also young wolves as the mayors of Saint-Etienne, Gaël Perdriau, and Valencia, Nicolas Daragon.
“This is not the application of a man but of a team, “said Mr. Wauquiez has expressed his” rally will. “
Mr. Barnier “is a very important person with major international powers,” said the former Minister Fillon government. “I hold out my hand for him to join the momentum we have created (…) There is no room for division,” he added.
Stressing the “dynamic ground” for his candidacy, Mr. Wauquiez does not close the door to the organization of a primary. “I have no mood for a primary but it takes a decision to be made quickly and you do not spend too long on it,” said he said, adding that “the decision, this is not Paris who takes. “
” I await the decision of Nicolas Sarkozy and I trust him, “Barnier said his side in an interview published Thursday by Weekly Renewal in Haute-Loire, in the garden of his competitor.
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