LR Presidency: For Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez, the end of a bidding war campaign

The campaign is over. Three months of activist buffets, bidding wars, and two rivals campaigning without crossing paths, except in the offices of a weekly newspaper for a photo with their faces tense. The two candidates for the presidency of the Republicans (LR) concluded their campaign on Friday, May 16, with a meeting in the Rhône for Laurent Wauquiez, in Nîmes (Gard) for Bruno Retailleau. Sunday evening, the members will have decided by electronic vote. A boon for the shop's finances, membership has tripled , going from 43,859 members in February to 121,617. The sign of a "campaign of card sellers," laughs a ministerial advisor. "This congress is stupid," rants an LR executive. "It's going to leave traces