LR elected officials from Yonne on Thursday, September 17 called deputy Guillaume Larrivé to resign from the departmental presidency of the party, accusing him of having "
tried to get closer to Emmanuel Macron
".
The press release, released to the press, is signed by two deputies of the LR mayor of Sens Marie-Louise Fort, two mayors who are also departmental councilors, and the head of the Young Republicans of Yonne.
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"
With virulence, Guillaume Larrivé has always denounced the betrayals of those who had joined President Macron
", write the signatories, recalling the book in the form of a pamphlet published in 2018 by the person concerned, "
Le coup d'Etat Macron: le prince against the nation
”.
"
By his recent announcements, his sudden turnaround, Guillaume Larrivé has definitely come to sit on his elected officials, his activists and the whole federation of Republicans of Yonne
", they continue.
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Claiming "
clarity
" and "
respect
", with the approach of the departmental and regional elections, to the one who "
tried, by ambition or conviction, to get closer to Emmanuel Macron
", the five elected ask him "
to resign immediately from the presidency of the Republicans of Yonne
”.
"
This small coup attempt, coming from a few people from the north of the Yonne, will not make me deviate from the line that I draw, within the Republicans, with my team, for France and for the Yonne!"
», Reacted Guillaume Larrivé, contacted by AFP.
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On July 15 at the National Assembly, Guillaume Larrivé had distinguished himself by being the only LR deputy to give his confidence to the new Prime Minister Jean Castex at the end of his general policy speech.
A week later in the daily
Le Figaro
, he renewed his wishes for success in government, denouncing the "
sectarian tone
" of his own party, unable in his eyes to embody an alternation in 2022.
He recently declared on Sud Radio that a candidacy of Nicolas Sarkozy in the next presidential election could be "
a hypothesis
".
The five elected officials who called on him to resign are François Boucher, mayor of Migennes and departmental councilor;
Paul-Antoine de Carville, first deputy mayor of Sens;
Clarisse Quentin, deputy mayor of Sens and departmental councilor;
Alexandre Bouchier, mayor of Saint-Denis-lès-Sens and departmental councilor;
Nicolas Boursin, head of the Young Republicans of Yonne.