The Republicans
Les Républicains is a French center-right political party whose website publishes news, statements, and campaign content from the party and its leaders, including Bruno Retailleau, and provides information on its local federations.www.republicains.fr
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Search complete. 13 mentions across 8 episodes found for "The Republicans".
Sep 11, 2026
John KampfnerGUEST
and eaten up by MAGA.
John KampfnerGUEST
Les Républicains in France have basically been eaten up by Marine Le Pen's national rally.
John KampfnerGUEST
The Conservatives in the UK have been deeply threatened, although that's a slightly different story now, because reform appears to be waning.
John KampfnerGUEST
But the trend is absolutely clear, and Merz and the CDU although they're not necessarily the same thing, are in deep trouble.
Rachel CostaHOST
David Lisner lance sa candidature à la présidence de l'année 2027 avec le programme Nouvelle Énergie.
Rachel CostaHOST
David Lisner, maire de Cannes depuis 2014 et fondateur du parti Nouvelle Énergie, a confirmé sa candidature à la présidence de la République française pour 2027, après avoir quitté les Républicains en mars 2026.
Rachel CostaHOST
Son programme, présenté sur le site MonVote2027, se caractérise par une ligne nette visant une réduction significative de l'argent.
Rachel CostaHOST
migration légal, sublimation, l'adjustissement des peines pour les infractions violentes et l'élimination des remises automatiques de peine.
Niall PatersonHOST
Can we attribute that to one reason, one explanation? Is it simply the case that mass migration has allowed the parties of the right to make their case more strongly than they have been able to before?
Philippe MarliereGUEST
I think when you look at the mainstream conservative parties, such as the Tories in the UK, Les Républicains, Chirac's and Sarkozy's party in France, I think there's been a notable shift to the right on a number of issues, notably immigration.
Philippe MarliereGUEST
One of the effects of that is that the views of the far right on immigration, which were deemed 20 or even 10 years ago very extreme, have now been to some extent legitimized and or they've entered the mainstream.
Philippe MarliereGUEST
But little help from the conservatives, but also from the media.
Philippe MarliereGUEST
It's really to tell.
Philippe MarliereGUEST
I would suspect that there are very good chances of that, yes.
Philippe MarliereGUEST
Because in particular, if there's a kind of hung parliament, if there's no absolute majority for the national rally, they will turn to the party which is closest, which is Les Républicains.
Philippe MarliereGUEST
And opinion polls have been showing already for a few years that the electorate of Les Républicains are quite keen to vote on some occasions for the national rally.
Anthony LatierHOST
Oui.
Pauline de Saint-RémyGUEST
C'est-à-dire les Républicains.
Pauline de Saint-RémyGUEST
Euh, il est plutôt sur une ligne de gauche.
Pauline de Saint-RémyGUEST
Il se représente devant les Français en quelque sorte, en, euh...
Ben McPartlandHOST
So getting back to Le Pen's idea of a referendum on wearing the headscarf in public places, it's obviously provoked a strong reaction, even among right-wing rival candidates.
Ben McPartlandHOST
Bruno Retailleau, remember him, former interior minister and candidate for right-wing Le Républicain party, he slammed Le Pen, blasting her announcement as populist and grandstanding.
Ben McPartlandHOST
On the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called the proposal vile.
Ben McPartlandHOST
He said this party demonstrates once again that it hasn't changed, pouring out its sexist and Islamophobic obsessions.
Olly HaynesHOST
So go ahead with yours.
Marlon EttingerHOST
So in the silly season, I don't know, maybe it's mean to call this the silly season, but Xavier Bertrand, former Minister of Travel, former head of the UMP, which was Les Républicains, would be justice minister under, I think, the Barnier government, though the RN didn't want him in there.
Marlon EttingerHOST
He has apparently announced that he is going to run for president.
Marlon EttingerHOST
That's what François Faux reported.
Caroline ConnanCORRESPONDENT
... uh, socialist, uh, who can actually possibly appear as a reassuring figure, uh, for the center left.
Caroline ConnanCORRESPONDENT
Uh, and then of course you have the smaller candidates, uh, Bruno Retailleau from, uh, the Republican Party, uh, who is also perhaps waiting to see if Édouard Philippe can really have this momentum over the next few months.
Stephen CarrollHOST
A- and just coming back a little bit more into the immediate challenges, there is another budget coming up.
Stephen CarrollHOST
We've mentioned how difficult it is to try and get a budget passed.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
I think the key thing to watch is whether Edouard Philippe, who is the default candidate, does a combination of opinion polling, his performance at the various campaign rallies, his ability to present himself as a president, political endorsements from across the spectrum.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
Does that combination of things result in momentum? that gives him a lead that then forces Attal and others to row in behind him including from the center left and even some LR adjacent figures given Retailleau I don't suspect his numbers are going to increase in a meaningful way and so the incentives for not just the three bits of the Macron middle but also the center left and the center right are going to be framed by whether there is a perception created around a single candidate who is seen to be the best chance mainstream parties have of beating Le Pen.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
And so the key question is, can Philippe deliver and develop that momentum? And, you know, there's a chance he will, there's a chance he may not.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
You know, Philippe is, he has certain strengths compared to the other mainstream candidates.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
You're doing something that doesn't make sense.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
Come and find me in December if you need me, which I suspect may happen because the left is going to remain stuck sub 10%.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
And at some point they may say, oh, this process we've alighted upon isn't going to throw up a candidate that's capable of either placing second in round one and challenging Le Pen and so maybe we need to do something different and Hollande may seek to insert himself independently in the race depending on what happens to his opinion polls between let's say now and the end of the year but I think the left is basically in a mess The LR, as I've said, isn't going anywhere.
Mujtaba RahmanGUEST
And so the key question is, in that Macron middle, can something emerge? You know, the problem is there is no chain of succession from Macron to a successor.