Five years after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, have France’s conservatives once again backed the wrong horse in the race for the presidential Elysée Palace?
This nagging question has come back to haunt the mainstream conservative Les Républicains party after a dreary week that began with a string of high-profile defections and ended with an underwhelming campaign rally at the Zenith concert hall in Paris on Sunday.
Valérie Pécresse’s first major campaign gathering was meant to energize a sputtering presidential bid rattled by the defections and self-doubt. Instead, it exposed a key weakness of a conservative candidate ill-suited to the raucous world of campaign rallies.
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