Regional in Paca: the earthquake continues to the right

It is well known that Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (Paca) is a region with a high seismic risk.

And the earthquake of an agreement between LREM and Renaud Muselier at the regional level, announced this Sunday by Jean Castex and stopped this Tuesday by LR, continues to provoke aftershocks.

"Macron activated the function

to ch ... the right

", laughs a Walker, observing the fracturing take place.

Because this Wednesday, at midday, the mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco, notoriously favorable to an agreement and who maintains a link with the president, announces to Le Figaro that he is leaving LR.

"I free them, a villain, it weighs in a party," he squeaks to the Parisian.

Reference to the adjective used to qualify him, like Christian Estrosi, by the party boss Christian Jacob, this Tuesday in strategic advice.

"If I had been treated as evil, I would have done like you", also slipped Renaud Muselier, reconfirmed with forceps as head of the LR list in the region.

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Estrosi, also Macron-compatible, will he also slam the door? This Wednesday, several regional sources and LR seemed convinced. One thing is certain: Wednesday deeply affected the mayor of Nice. “I had Christian Estrosi on the phone last night (

Editor's note: this Tuesday

). He was very disappointed, very saddened by what he heard yesterday, ”slips Falco.

In question, the very tense exchanges at the national investiture commission on Tuesday evening, in which the mayor of Nice participated.

"You are more and more ambiguous with the National Front, I consider that Macron is better than Le Pen", attacks Christian Estrosi.

"That's enough your allegations.

We are tight with the Front and you will not be able to prove the contrary.

The difference is that we are also with Macron, ”then explodes Christian Jacob.

“I have only been to the CNI four times in four years.

Why don't you ever invite me?

»Complains the Niçois.

"Why do you want us to invite people who stick knives in our backs?"

»Sends him back the president of the party.

Exchanges which, for many witnesses, constitute a point of no return between the two men.

"If Estrosi also leaves, it would be a triple show"

"He is trying to see if what was said yesterday (

Editor's note: this Tuesday

) to LR leaves him his freedom intact", slipped this Wednesday, during the day, one of his relatives.

"If he leaves, he will do it the day after Falco."

One event a day is Chinese torture!

“, Worries a figure of the Mediterranean right.

“The best reward for us is the departure of Falco, who thus signs his crime.

But if Estrosi also leaves, it would be a triple piece mounted, ”jubilates on the contrary a tenor from the right.

Some still refuse to believe it.

"He will not leave, he knows that he is of value in Macron's eyes only if he has the LR label…", estimates a parliamentarian.

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In the meantime, Macronie is watching the battering bear fruit.

"It's useful, because it clarifies things," observes a framework of the majority, predicting that "LR will lose on both sides", on its moderate edge and on the more radical.

The strategy at the moment is simple, on the LREM side, leaving the prerogative of divisions and dramas to the Republicans, while waiting for the dust to settle.

“The cameras were not in front of our seat.

Politics, that's where it is!

»Tackles the party's boss, Stanislas Guerini.

This should not make us forget that this incredible soap opera also plunges the majority into embarrassment. The agreement was already angering part of the troops. His terms were as follows: 30% representatives of the presidential majority on the list, including Secretary of State Sophie Cluzel. For three days now, Muselier has manifested the intention to free himself from it, contradicting the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, who responded in person to his call. Internally, some are already pleading for a Cluzel list to be indeed filed, while others are opposed to this idea. The staff chooses to let it settle. In everyone's mind, the risk is that Mariani will come out on top.