BFMTV INFO. Bruno Retailleau convenes his first Strategic Council at LR on Tuesday morning

On the trail. Freshly elected leader of the Les Républicains party this Sunday, May 18, Bruno Retailleau will convene his first strategic council meeting at the party's headquarters this Tuesday, May 20, at 8:30 a.m., BFMTV has learned from concordant sources.

This body, which is more tightly knit than the political bureau, includes Gérard Larcher, Mathieu Darnaud, Laurent Wauquiez, François-Xavier Bellamy, François Baroin, Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Jean-François Copé, Daniel Fasquelle, Annie Genevard, and Valérie Pécresse, among others. A new party organizational chart is also expected.

After spending the morning in the role of leader of the LR, Bruno Retailleau will once again don the role of Minister of the Interior, which he has held since September 2024, in the early afternoon. As a resident of Place Beauvau, he will attend the tribute ceremony for Aurélie Fouquet, the municipal police officer killed in 2010 in Villiers-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) during a botched robbery organized by Redoine Faïd.

Bruno Retailleau will continue to juggle these two roles. This Monday at 5 p.m., he will be received by Prime Minister François Bayou for a working meeting as Minister of the Interior. On Wednesday, he will be received by the head of government as leader of the LR to discuss proportional representation, BFMTV learned from concordant sources.

Bruno Retailleau won this election by a landslide over Laurent Wauquiez. He received 74.31% of the vote, compared to 25.69% for the president of the Republican Right group in the National Assembly. This victory opens the door to him running for president in the next presidential election in 2027.

"I will be the first architect of our victory, I hope, in 2027," the 64-year-old former senator declared on CNews/Europe 1, admitting that it was "difficult to imagine" that he would not be thinking of the Élysée.