After Laurent Wauquiez's defeat as president of the LR, the deputies refuse to part with him

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Political life is nothing but a succession of lessons in humility. Laurent Wauquiez, LR's "natural" candidate for the next presidential election just six months ago, has just learned this again. Soundly beaten by Bruno Retailleau for the presidency of LR , the leader of the party's deputies "made a mistake," according to a close friend of the Minister of the Interior. "He remained stuck in an image of the 2016 activist, the Trocadéro right. The most populist, the most radical, are with Ciotti, Zemmour, RN. The offer is enormous!" analyzes the same person. Herein lies the irony: Wauquiez was not present at François Fillon's famous meeting in 2017, while