The fog is not completely dissipated around Renaud Muselier.
The outgoing president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region certainly promised on Tuesday not to take any minister or parliamentarian from La République en Marche (LREM) on his lists, which allowed him to obtain support - rather than l nomination - of the Les Républicains (LR) party for the regional elections in June.
But he says he is ready, in a form of implicit alliance, to welcome personalities from the majority if they resign from their national functions.
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"There was never an agreement with LREM"
, insisted the elected Marseillais Tuesday on France 2, while specifying that the Secretary of State for the Disabled, Sophie Cluzel, head of file of LREM in the region , could join him if she leaves the government.
"If Ms. Cluzel wants to resign, bring her skills as responsible for the disabled for the restart of the region, I take skills wherever they come from, as I did throughout this period of crisis,"
said Renaud. Muselier, by claiming a local openness approach.
"Clarity is not maneuvers"
"No. Clarity is not maneuvers, ”
retorted later on France Info Gérard Larcher, questioned about this declaration.
The President (LR) of the Senate refers to the LR press release published Tuesday evening, after three days of crisis triggered by the withdrawal from the LREM list in Paca in favor of Renaud Muselier - a decision announced by the Prime Minister in
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
"There can be no agreement, at any level whatsoever, with LREM,"
said the party's national investiture commission.
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The exercise of
"clarification"
praised by leaders of LR was however parasitized by government spokesman Gabriel Attal, who assured at the same time, on LCI, that there would
"of course" be
LREM candidates behind. Renaud Muselier. The Marseillais must complete the perilous exercise of composing the lists by May 17 at the latest, the deadline for submitting them to the prefecture before the ballot on June 20 and 27.
