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The mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco leaves Les Républicains after tensions in Paca

2021-05-06T02:33:36.512Z


INFO LE FIGARO - Mayor LR slams the door of his party, whose political line he condemns for the next regional ones.


The Republicans believed they had ended the episode.

After the electoral psychodrama in Paca, several stormy meetings to force Renaud Muselier to refuse any participation of En Marche on the electoral lists, the political recomposition continues.

The LR mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, close to Renaud Muselier and Christian Estrosi, has decided to regain his freedom and slam the door of the party in which he no longer finds himself.

“Today, I do not deny anything, I do not criticize anything, but I decide to take back my freedom.

I am therefore leaving the Les Républicains party

,

explains Hubert Falco to

Le Figaro

.

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For Hubert Falco, Tuesday marked the divorce between two strategic and political lines.

"To unequivocally condemn any support in a region as politically sensitive as the


Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur region is irresponsible!"

, denounces the mayor. "

Not to be in favor of the union when the threat of the coming to power of the National Rally has never been so strong, comes down to playing its game

", continues the mayor LR of Toulon, very close to Édouard Philippe and former support of Alain Juppé in the primary.

“In the difficult context that our country is currently going through, the trials of intent and the agitations of the LR microcosm at the Parisian level seem to me to be ridiculous and out of place.

They are the sign of a "save the day" and of a narrowing of the line of this party which forgets the essential issues to which it must respond ",

judges the former minister who accuses his political family of not not grasp the challenge of the moment.

"

They fuel sterile controversies, at a time when our country and our territory need trust, harmony and unity more than ever,

" condemns the mayor, who recalls having been elected 18 times, including 12 in the first round.

A free man"

“By fighting the National Rally and dislodging it, I have the feeling that I have served the interests of my city and that I have also.


brought a lot to the Republicans party ”

, he supports by refusing the trial which is made to him by a part of his political family to play a dangerous game. For the mayor of Toulon, it is to the inhabitants of his region who trust him that he is "

accountable and only to them, no offense to the supporters of the Jacobin line of my political formation

". The mayor criticizes his party for not leaving the freedom to elected officials to constitute their list as they see fit, depending on local contingencies and regional political balances.

"These territories, they are made of women and men, of projects, of collective intelligence and they have nothing to do


with the moods of the Parisian apparatuses"

, assures the elected official.

In recent months, Hubert Falco, close to Emmanuel Macron, had lunch twice with the head of state, as

Le Figaro

had told

on April 13 at the Elysee and on August 4. From October 2020, Hubert Falco publicly indicated in the columns of

Le Figaro

that he did not see why he could not work with the president. Today, the mayor of Toulon calls himself a "

free man

". "

As a free man, I want to continue to serve the interests of democracy, of the territory of which I am elected and of my country, without sectarianism,

" he concludes. He intends to devote himself to it "

with energy

". Without forbidding anything. Other LR elected officials could now be tempted to follow him.

Source: lefigaro

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