FRANCE: CHRISTIAN JACOB PRESIDENT OF THE UMP

A nine-year-old member of the LR legislature, Christian Jacob was elected Sunday night as the new president of the Republican party with 62.58% of the party's vote, ahead of Julien Aubert and Guillaume Larrivé.

The activists preferred to trust a faithful to the history of the party, rather than two young deputies quadras who intended to embody the break with the return to a line right for Julien Aubert, nostalgic of the RPR and a right Liberal and national for Guillaume Larrivé.

This former agricultural unionist spotted by Jacques Chirac in 1988 and atypical course - he has only the BEPC in his pocket - will have to tackle the difficult task of rebuilding a political family today in tatters.

And to drive it until the next presidential elections of 2022. The task is titanic and complicated, and he knows it.

"Everyone knows the difficulty of putting back on track our movement which for seven years has lived so many critical periods. We will only succeed if everyone clearly agrees to put their personal ambitions and their egos aside to devote themselves exclusively to the preparation of our project alternation macronism. "Warned the former mayor of Provins who pledged not to run for president. A foot call to the lost sheep Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse?

But the next test will be that of the municipal, this appointment that should not miss the right that has an important territorial network of local elected officials from the blue wave of 2014. "It will be a moment of truth between macronism and the Leninism on one side and us on the other. "

To do this, Christian Jacob intends to put back to the heart of the debate the unifying priorities of restoring the authority of the state, the fight against "the poison of communitarianism and uncontrolled immigration", but also the fight against "the impoverishment of the middle classes and pensioners ".

After the debacle of 2017 and the rout of the European May, LR has more than ever an effective mediator to reconcile the different rights. Republicans seem to have found it.

Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld