Xavier Bertrand reminds Retailleau that he is not the only LR to want to be a presidential candidate

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Although he temporizes by saying he wants to climb "hill after hill," Bruno Retailleau does not really hide his desire to be a presidential candidate now that he has been triumphantly elected president of LR. "I did not do all this so that I would then abdicate and that we would fall under this or that color," he confirmed on CNews on Monday, May 19, ruling out any withdrawal in favor of a candidate from the "central bloc." Some of his supporters for the party were just as quick to point out that they too intended to run for the Élysée in 2027 in the name of LR. "Retailleau can legitimately have ambitions, like Laurent Wauquiez again. But let's not make this election say what it did not say. This election made it possible to designate the president of LR, not our candidate for 2027," pointed out Xavier Bertrand - who, (the s