2017 The Republicans (France) leadership election

French Republican Party leadership election, 2017
2017 The Republicans leadership election
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Turnout42.46% Decrease15.64%
 
Nominee Laurent Wauquiez Florence Portelli Maël de Calan
Party LR LR LR
Popular vote 73,554 15,876 9,113
Percentage 74.64% 16.11% 9.25%
Vote percentage for Wauquiez by department
  <65%   65–70%   70–75%   75–80%   80–85%   >85%
President before election

Vacant

 Elected President

Laurent Wauquiez

A leadership election for the presidency of The Republicans (LR) was held on 10 December 2017, the first since the refoundation of the party in 2015, before which it was known as the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), and seventh overall including the UMP congresses.

The leadership election followed the 2017 presidential election, in which its candidate François Fillon, the party nominee after winning the 2016 presidential primary, was eliminated in the first round. The party suffered further losses in the subsequent legislative elections, and the appointment of several right-wing ministers to the government of newly elected president Emmanuel Macron led to a split between "constructive" personalities and hardliners within the party, culminating in the expulsion of six prominent supporters and members of the government from The Republicans.

With the presidency of the party officially vacant since Fillon won the primary in November 2016, the political bureau of the party scheduled a leadership election a leadership election for 10 December 2017, with a second round on 17 December if no candidate secured a majority of the vote in the first round.

In a single-round vote on 10 December 2017, Laurent Wauquiez was elected by a wide margin, securing 74.64% of votes with turnout of just under 100,000 members, with his opponents Florence Portelli and Maël de Calan posting only marginal scores. Wauquiez was the only major politician from the party to stand in the leadership election, which Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse declined to contest. Following the result, Bertrand, the president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France, announced his departure from the party, noting his disagreement with Wauquiez's hard-right line.

Background

On 30 May 2015, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) was refounded as The Republicans (LR), an initiative of Nicolas Sarkozy preceding the 2016 presidential primary for the 2017 presidential election. Sarkozy presided over the party until 23 August 2016,[1] when he declared his candidacy in the presidential primary, after which Laurent Wauquiez was appointed as interim president and Éric Woerth as general secretary of the party in accordance with its statutes.[2] The presidency of the party became vacant on 29 November after the primary was won by François Fillon, who appointed Bernard Accoyer as general secretary and Wauquiez as 1st vice president.[3]

In the first round of the 2017 presidential election, Fillon suffered a historic defeat, with the right eliminated in the first round for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic amid "Penelopegate".[4] In the subsequent legislative elections, the right suffered further losses, losing nearly a hundred deputies, its worst score in the history of the Fifth Republic.[5]

Following the election of Emmanuel Macron as president under the banner of En Marche! and the subsequent appointment of three right-wing personalities in prominent posts in the newly formed government – Édouard Philippe as Prime Minister, Bruno Le Maire as French Ministry for the Economy and Finance, and Gérald Darmanin as Minister of Public Action and Accounts – a parliamentary group including LR dissidents supportive of the government, "The Constructives", was formed in the National Assembly, separate from the existing LR group.[6] Many LR figures called for the exclusion of the three ministers as well as Sébastien Lecornu, Thierry Solère, and Franck Riester, from the party. On 11 July, Accoyer announced that a "special commission" would "collect the explanations" of the six, postponing the exclusion decision until the autumn.[7] On 24 October, Le Maire confirmed that he left The Republicans for La République En Marche.[8] Darmamin, Lecornu, Solère, and Riester were formally excluded by the political bureau of the party on 31 October; Philippe was not formally excluded due to juridicial reasons, though the party noted his departure.[9] On 25 November, Darmamin, Lecornu, and Solère announced they joined La République En Marche,[10] while Riester founded a new centre-right party, Agir.[11]

On 11 July, the political bureau of The Republicans agreed to hold a leadership election for the new president of the party on 10 and 17 December, with nominations closing on 11 October.[12] Voting was held for 24 hours starting from 20:00 CET on 9 December in order to allow members of the party to vote regardless of their location, and be held in the same manner a week later if a second round was necessary.[13]

Candidates

Candidates for the presidency of The Republicans were required to submit applications for their candidacies with sponsorships to the High Authority of the party by 11 October 2017. To be considered valid, applications required the sponsorship of at least 1% of party adherents (i.e., a minimum of 2,347) within at least 15 different departmental federations, without more than a fifth of sponsors originating from any single federation, in addition to at least 5% of LR parliamentarians in the deputies, senators, or MEPs (i.e., at least 13 parliamentarians). The list of official candidates was released by the High Authority on 26 October after the validation of sponsorships, marking the beginning of the official campaign, which ended at midnight on 8 December; in the event that a second round was needed, the official campaign would have continued from 11 to 15 December.[14]

Validated

Candidate name and age[a] Political office(s) Details
Maël de Calan
(37) 		Maël de Calan Departmental councillor of Finistère
(since 2015)
Municipal councillor of Roscoff
(since 2014) 		The departmental councillor of Finistère,[15] president of the LR federation of Finistère,[16] municipal councillor of Roscoff,[17] and former spokesperson for Alain Juppé declared his candidacy on 5 September.[15][18] De Calan supported Juppé during the 2016 primary; European, liberal on the economy, and moderately conservative on societal issues, he represented the "moderate right" in the leadership election after the decisions of Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse not to run left open a political space on the centre-right.[19] He outmaneuvered Agnès Le Brun to secure the LR investiture in Finistère's 4th constituency for the 2017 legislative election,[20] but narrowly lost to La République En Marche! (REM) candidate Sandrine Le Feur in the second round.[21] With regard to "The Constructives", de Calan defended a nuanced position, claiming that they were simply no longer members of the party and warned against using a "sectarian" exclusion procedure.[22]
Florence Portelli
(39) 		Florence Portelli Mayor of Taverny
(since 2014)
Regional councillor of Île-de-France
(since 2015) 		The mayor of Taverny, regional councillor of Île-de-France,[23] national secretary for culture of The Republicans,[24] and former spokesman for François Fillon declared her candidacy on 29 August.[18][23] Having supported Fillon during the 2012 leadership election, she was selected as a spokesperson for his 2017 presidential campaign after being elected as a regional councillor of Île-de-France in the 2015 elections,[25] but chose not to attend his 5 March rally at the Trocadéro, disgusted by anti-judge and anti-journalist chants.[26] The daughter of senator Hugues Portelli, she militated "for the right to recover its pride", to "return to activists the place that they should have in the party", and "a refoundation, a democratized functioning, a radical change to statutes and clarification of the ideological line of the party".[25] She excluded any possibility of cooperating with the extreme right, argued for the need to "reinforce" immigration control, and supported the definitive exclusion of LR members of "The Constructives",[19] saying they had "excluded themselves", but invited those who hoped that its creation would propel the right to reform "to return to the fold," believing them mistaken.[25]
Laurent Wauquiez
(42) 		Laurent Wauquiez President of the regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
(since 2016)
1st vice president of The Republicans
(since 2015)
Other offices
 The president of the regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and 1st vice president of The Republicans declared his candidacy on 31 August.[2][18][27] Popular with the activist base of the party, Wauquiez's identitarian views echo those of Nicolas Sarkozy.[19] Despite being detested by many in the party leadership, Wauquiez's hard-right views,[28] emphasizing the themes of immigration, identity, and Islamism,[29] and appeals for a "right that is really right", gained him the backing of the party's supporters.[28] Though he repeatedly promised that he would not seek an alliance with the National Front (FN),[30] his refusal to support Emmanuel Macron against Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election reinforced fears that he might lead the party into an alliance with the FN.[28] Wauquiez was further castigated for his relationship with Sens Commun – a political association linked to The Republicans related to La Manif Pour Tous, which spearheaded the opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage of France – with concerns about the group's openness to working with the FN and the extreme right.[31] Wauquiez denounced "The Constructives" as "traitors" who "have nothing left to do" in the party, but also hoped to unite the sensibilities of the right.[32]

Invalidated

Renounced

  • Envisaged candidacies
  • Candidacies announced but later aborted
  • Julien Aubert, deputy for Vaucluse's 5th constituency; declared candidacy on 3 September,[41] but renounced on 11 October after failing to secure enough sponsorships (claimed 13 parliamentarians and 2,211 adherents)[42]
  • Laurence Sailliet, member of the political bureau of the party; declared candidacy on 9 July,[43] but renounced on 9 October after failing to secure enough sponsorships (claimed 14 parliamentarians and 1,800 adherents)[44]

Opinion polling

Because the number of paying members of the party constitutes only a small proportion of the French population, no surveys have explicitly surveyed voting intentions. However, surveys have been conducted among all French, including supporters of The Republicans and the right and centre, on the candidate they would support in the leadership election.

Among LR supporters
Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample
size 		Laurent Wauquiez Florence Portelli Maël de Calan Daniel Fasquelle No response
Election 9–10 Dec 2017 – 74.64% 16.11% 9.25% – –
Odoxa 6–7 Dec 2017 113 62% 20% 14% – 4%
Odoxa 11–12 Oct 2017 133 78% 14% 2% 4% 2%
Among all French
Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample
size 		Laurent Wauquiez Florence Portelli Maël de Calan Daniel Fasquelle No response
Odoxa 6–7 Dec 2017 986 40% 32% 19% – 9%
Odoxa 11–12 Oct 2017 992 44% 29% 10% 7% 10%

Hypothetical polling

Among LR supporters
Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample
size 		François Baroin Xavier Bertrand Laurent Wauquiez Valérie Pécresse None of these
Harris Interactive 19 Jun 2017 – 48% 19% 10% 9% 14%
Among right/centre supporters
Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample
size 		François Baroin Xavier Bertrand Laurent Wauquiez Valérie Pécresse None of these
Harris Interactive 19 Jun 2017 – 40% 20% 13% 8% 19%
Among all French
Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample
size 		François Baroin Xavier Bertrand Laurent Wauquiez Valérie Pécresse None of these
Harris Interactive 19 Jun 2017 1,021 19% 15% 7% 6% 53%

Results

Candidate First round
Votes %
Laurent Wauquiez 73,554 74.64
Florence Portelli 15,876 16.11
Maël de Calan 9,113 9.25
Total 98,543 100.00
Valid votes 98,543 98.94
Blank votes 1,054 1.06
Turnout 99,597 42.46
Abstentions 134,959 57.54
Registered voters 234,556
Source: The Republicans

By department

Department Laurent
Wauquiez 		Florence
Portelli 		Maël
de Calan 		Votes Members %
# % # % # %
Ain 777 87.01 77 8.62 39 4.37 899 1,875 47.95
Aisne 500 69.06 124 17.13 100 13.81 735 2,255 32.59
Allier 488 83.85 54 9.28 40 6.87 586 1,083 54.11
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 221 80.66 36 13.14 17 6.20 278 685 40.58
Hautes-Alpes 176 82.24 30 14.02 8 3.74 214 523 40.92
Alpes-Maritimes 3,736 79.22 628 13.32 352 7.46 4,766 10,491 45.43
Ardèche 497 89.23 40 7.18 20 3.59 561 949 59.11
Ardennes 183 72.91 52 20.72 16 6.37 257 689 37.30
Ariège 139 78.53 24 13.56 14 7.91 180 379 47.49
Aube 287 69.66 98 23.79 27 6.55 421 1,163 36.20
Aude 428 80.91 67 12.67 34 6.43 534 1,197 44.61
Aveyron 211 83.40 33 13.04 9 3.56 257 641 40.09
Bouches-du-Rhône 3,585 83.35 510 11.86 206 4.79 4,357 10,509 41.46
Calvados 627 69.59 188 20.87 86 9.54 913 2,018 45.24
Cantal 182 91.46 5 2.51 12 6.03 200 371 53.91
Charente 244 72.62 37 11.01 55 16.37 338 788 42.89
Charente-Maritime 821 70.11 179 15.29 171 14.60 1,184 2,658 44.54
Cher 326 74.94 64 14.71 45 10.34 436 1,004 43.43
Corrèze 314 75.12 58 13.88 46 11.00 422 939 44.94
Côte-d'Or 618 73.57 130 15.48 92 10.95 852 1,938 43.96
Côtes-d'Armor 406 70.86 73 12.74 94 16.40 577 1,205 47.88
Creuse 129 83.77 18 11.69 7 4.55 154 371 41.51
Dordogne 458 77.36 77 13.01 57 9.63 597 1,409 42.37
Doubs 745 82.69 113 12.54 43 4.77 911 2,101 43.36
Drôme 639 82.88 91 11.80 41 5.32 773 1,699 45.50
Eure 428 75.09 100 17.54 42 7.37 580 1,557 37.25
Eure-et-Loir 448 79.43 72 12.77 44 7.80 572 1,268 45.11
Finistère 467 52.53 129 14.51 293 32.96 891 1,763 50.54
Corse-du-Sud 257 80.06 49 15.26 15 4.67 323 853 37.87
Haute-Corse 259 85.76 37 12.25 6 1.99 302 709 42.60
Gard 1,169 80.79 214 14.79 64 4.42 1,469 2,981 49.28
Haute-Garonne 1,396 75.58 299 16.19 152 8.23 1,863 3,856 48.31
Gers 195 74.71 45 17.24 21 8.05 261 548 47.63
Gironde 1,624 65.86 314 12.73 528 21.41 2,484 5,604 44.33
Hérault 1,421 79.83 246 13.82 113 6.35 1,798 3,928 45.77
Ille-et-Vilaine 451 61.11 138 18.70 149 20.19 750 1,815 41.32
Indre 217 72.33 59 19.67 24 8.00 303 639 47.42
Indre-et-Loire 657 69.30 212 22.36 79 8.33 963 2,217 43.44
Isère 1,431 85.28 179 10.67 68 4.05 1,690 3,422 49.39
Jura 357 78.12 43 9.41 57 12.47 461 1,084 42.53
Landes 367 71.68 83 16.21 62 12.11 521 1,180 44.15
Loir-et-Cher 326 77.43 73 17.34 22 5.23 423 834 50.72
Loire 881 87.75 75 7.47 48 4.78 1,015 1,825 55.62
Haute-Loire 575 97.96 7 1.19 5 0.85 587 844 69.55
Loire-Atlantique 1,096 68.80 366 22.98 131 8.22 1,612 3,999 40.31
Loiret 563 75.27 124 16.58 61 8.16 760 1,719 44.21
Lot 185 85.25 22 10.14 10 4.61 218 426 51.17
Lot-et-Garonne 338 76.82 48 10.91 54 12.27 444 1,085 40.92
Lozère 119 82.07 14 9.66 12 8.28 145 283 51.24
Maine-et-Loire 556 70.74 166 21.12 64 8.14 790 1,825 43.29
Manche 363 74.23 82 16.77 44 9.00 493 1,089 45.27
Marne 434 69.44 107 17.12 84 13.44 639 1,686 37.90
Haute-Marne 154 69.37 44 19.82 24 10.81 222 561 39.57
Mayenne 190 78.19 37 15.23 16 6.58 249 541 46.03
Meurthe-et-Moselle 646 79.75 121 14.94 43 5.31 816 1,760 46.36
Meuse 113 65.32 51 29.48 9 5.20 176 472 37.29
Morbihan 531 64.44 168 20.39 125 15.17 834 1,734 48.10
Moselle 670 80.43 93 11.16 70 8.40 842 2,282 36.90
Nièvre 156 74.29 35 16.67 19 9.05 212 478 44.35
Nord 1,418 71.15 377 18.92 198 9.93 2,024 5,149 39.31
Oise 863 70.91 263 21.61 91 7.48 1,232 3,114 39.56
Orne 229 63.26 97 26.80 36 9.94 369 874 42.22
Pas-de-Calais 832 72.66 216 18.86 97 8.47 1,170 2,681 43.64
Puy-de-Dôme 698 86.71 58 7.20 49 6.09 808 1,500 53.87
Pyrénées-Atlantiques 943 77.81 172 14.19 97 8.00 1,217 2,548 47.76
Hautes-Pyrénées 235 67.53 97 27.87 16 4.60 349 829 42.10
Pyrénées-Orientales 896 84.13 124 11.64 45 4.23 1,073 2,377 45.14
Bas-Rhin 701 73.56 150 15.74 102 10.70 969 2,576 37.62
Haut-Rhin 533 70.88 157 20.88 62 8.24 765 1,862 41.08
Rhône 2,783 84.05 334 10.09 194 5.86 3,328 6,770 49.16
Haute-Saône 309 82.18 43 11.44 24 6.38 381 884 43.10
Saône-et-Loire 587 72.65 121 14.98 100 12.38 814 1,621 50.22
Sarthe 312 55.91 203 36.38 43 7.71 567 1,293 43.85
Savoie 424 79.70 69 12.97 39 7.33 536 1,206 44.44
Haute-Savoie 965 77.89 189 15.25 85 6.86 1,253 2,819 44.45
Paris 3,935 66.07 1,210 20.32 811 13.62 6,010 17,033 35.28
Seine-Maritime 797 66.86 207 17.37 188 15.77 1,203 2,939 40.93
Seine-et-Marne 1,588 75.44 358 17.01 159 7.55 2,128 4,866 43.73
Yvelines 2,427 67.95 760 21.28 385 10.78 3,606 8,413 42.86
Deux-Sèvres 182 65.47 46 16.55 50 17.99 283 745 37.99
Somme 435 74.74 91 15.64 56 9.62 593 1,386 42.78
Tarn 446 86.10 47 9.07 25 4.83 523 1,104 47.37
Tarn-et-Garonne 345 80.61 63 14.72 20 4.67 428 782 54.73
Var 2,340 81.48 378 13.16 154 5.36 2,897 6,871 42.16
Vaucluse 832 80.00 139 13.37 69 6.63 1,056 2,218 47.61
Vendée 508 68.37 159 21.40 76 10.23 759 1,729 43.90
Vienne 303 66.45 68 14.91 85 18.64 457 1,061 43.07
Haute-Vienne 460 84.56 44 8.09 40 7.35 551 1,103 49.95
Vosges 341 73.18 89 19.10 36 7.73 470 1,091 43.08
Yonne 399 76.58 68 13.05 54 10.36 524 1,071 48.93
Territoire de Belfort 588 82.47 95 13.32 30 4.21 725 1,740 41.67
Essonne 1,139 71.59 313 19.67 139 8.74 1,617 3,615 44.73
Hauts-de-Seine 3,241 67.34 992 20.61 580 12.05 4,863 13,137 37.02
Seine-Saint-Denis 726 73.11 193 19.44 74 7.45 1,007 2,423 41.56
Val-de-Marne 1,441 71.44 356 17.65 220 10.91 2,049 4,499 45.54
Val-d'Oise 989 58.49 520 30.75 182 10.76 1,706 3,724 45.81
Guadeloupe 132 78.11 29 17.16 8 4.73 169 482 35.06
Martinique 92 73.02 26 20.63 8 6.35 127 474 26.79
French Guiana 16 59.26 9 33.33 2 7.41 27 146 18.49
Réunion 401 82.68 55 11.34 29 5.98 495 1,445 34.26
Mayotte 114 85.07 8 5.97 12 8.96 134 893 15.01
New Caledonia 188 83.19 30 13.27 8 3.54 229 1,792 12.78
French residents overseas 624 65.27 188 19.67 144 15.06 967 3,561 27.16
Other departments[b] 20 68.97 7 24.14 2 6.90 29 303 9.57
Total 73,554 74.64 15,876 16.11 9,113 9.25 99,597 234,556 42.46
Source: The Republicans

Aftermath

On 11 December 2017, following the election of Laurent Wauquiez as president of the party, Xavier Bertrand, president of the regional council of Hauts-de-France, announced that he would "definitively quit" The Republicans. Appearing on France 2, he stated that he no longer recognized his party and therefore decided to leave it the evening of the election, having already been critical of Wauquiez's failure to clearly commit against the extreme-right and engagement with the FN.[45] Bertrand said that he did not intend to join or create a political party, adding that "my party is the Hauts-de-France region".[46] Wauquiez's victory was met with relative silence among political personalities of the moderate right, with no acknowledgement or congratulation to Valérie Pécresse and Christian Estrosi silent, and Alain Juppé merely noting that the election produced a "victory without surprise".[47] Prior to the election, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), stated that there would no longer be an alliance between the two parties in the case of a Wauquiez victory.[48]

On 13 December, Wauquiez unveiled his selections for the leadership of the party, with Virginie Calmels, Guillaume Peltier, and Damien Abad appointed as vice presidents, Annie Genevard appointed as secretary general, in addition to six deputy secretaries general and spokespersons. Wauquiez will meet with Pécresse later in the week.[49]

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ Age calculated as of the date of validation of candidacies on 26 October 2017
  2. ^ "Other departments" lists the combined totals of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Wallis and Futuna, and French Polynesia for purposes of secrecy of votes cast by party members in those departments.

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