Faced with the political imbroglio in Paca with the approach of the regional ones, the Republicans have decided not to exclude Renaud Muselier and to “resist destabilization”, in the words of their president Christian Jacob this Tuesday at the exit of the strategic committee by LR.
"We are not at all in a subject of exclusion", assured the boss of the party, questioned on the fate of the outgoing president of the Paca region.
And this, two days after the announcement by Prime Minister Jean Castex of the withdrawal from the LREM list in Paca in favor of the LR list.
Renaud Muselier must clarify his position in the afternoon.
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Tuesday morning, at the exit of the strategic council, Renaud Muselier declared: "It is I who decides, I am a free man", proclaiming "I have never betrayed".
“From the start, I have been saying that there will be no device agreement,” he said again.
Monday, he had tried to calm the spirits by specifying that there would be on his list no "holder of national mandates, that it is the ministers and the deputies" - whereas the Secretary of State Sophie Cluzel had announced there his presence on Monday in L'Opinion.
"No one can doubt my loyalty to my political family", of which "I will ask again for support" Tuesday, Mr. Muselier said.
Several elected Republicans had raised Monday the hypothesis of the creation of an LR list against the outgoing president of the region Paca Renaud Muselier, after the withdrawal for his benefit from the LREM list for the regional ones.
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