United on Wednesday, November 11 to commemorate peace, they have not, politically, settled the question of their coming together.
Five months before the presidential election, candidates of the right and the center are still seeking an alliance, while Édouard Philippe maintains his refusal of any primary.
The issue concerns the method of selecting a common candidate. Without an agreement, several contenders are moving separately toward 2027.
The former prime minister is under pressure. Struggling in the polls, he still refuses the primary, while his rivals on the right and in the center press on without him.
Bruno Retailleau, for his part, is putting a timetable on the table. He has proposed a primary of the right and the center on January 31 and February 7.
At a book signing on Thursday morning, he repeated that they no longer have a choice.
The teams of Bruno Retailleau, Gabriel Attal and David Lisnard are due to talk in a few days. Édouard Philippe, for his part, is standing by the refusal he has expressed for several months.
On the far right, Reconquête’s candidate for 2027 is Éric Zemmour, not Sarah Knafo.
To court the green vote, Jean-Luc Mélenchon promises to reach 100% renewable energy by 2060.
Thursday’s sequence thus leaves face to face a personal refusal of a primary, a timetable proposed on the right and in the center, an openly claimed Reconquête candidacy, and an energy promise aimed at the environmentalist electorate.