Christian Estrosi joins Edouard Philippe.
The mayor (formerly Les Républicains, LR) of Nice announced on Wednesday that he would join the new party of the former prime minister, Horizons, and rally through him the banner “Together citizens!”
inaugurated Monday by the majority.
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"I commit myself with you, my dear Édouard (...), to defend our heritage and to carry our values of the right and the center"
, he declared during a public meeting organized in his city. in the presence of the mayor of Le Havre.
His choice, he said, also commits La France audacieuse, the club of local elected officials that he founded.
"Nothing" "distinguishes" LR and Zemmour
The very day of the opening of the internal ballot in LR to designate the party's presidential candidate, the ex-minister of Nicolas Sarkozy ensures that he will take a decision out of
“loyalty”
to his
“political history”
. One way to blame the
“LR drift”
, already questioned last May when he resigned from the party. According to Christian Estrosi,
"nothing more"
do
"distinguished"
LR and essayist Eric Zemmour, who said Tuesday his candidacy as president.
“They have the same words. The same ideas, ”
he said from the podium, referring to the positions of the candidates on immigration.
Christian Estrosi thus follows in the footsteps of the mayor of Toulon (Var), Hubert Falco, ex-LR member of Horizons, signatory like him of a support column for Emmanuel Macron published last November 20 in
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
Christian Estrosi insists:
"For 2022, I think we need to go even further than the spirit of going beyond 2017"
.
