The violence of the words exchanged at Les Républicains during this week will have been stronger than the calls made by Renaud Muselier for Christian Estrosi to remain within the “family”. "I'm going from LR", finally decided the mayor of Nice, Thursday afternoon, in an interview with Figaro, following the example, the day before, of his friend Hubert Falco, mayor of Toulon. In question, obviously, the incredible boxing of the last days around an agreement that the city council defended between LR and LREM for the regional elections in Paca. In a violent charge, Christian Estrosi accuses what is henceforth his former party of "making a pact with our enemies of the extreme right", while it is in the name of the anti-RN dyke that he defended a regional rapprochement with the Republic in March.
Whoever assures that his “Gaullist” filiation will always be his asks for a “clarification” of LR in relation to the extreme right.
While waiting for this, he withdraws from the party and calls for "reconstituting a large modern political formation to bring together people from the right and from the center".
"There is no clarification to be expected of any kind", replies the president of LR, Christian Jacob, whose party took care to remind Wednesday evening, at the end of a national council, that no "elected representative of the RN" (but also of the left or LREM) should appear on the LR lists at the regional level.
"I always regret the starts but it has the merit of consistency," adds Christian Jacob, who does not pretend to be affected.
"Checkmate"
Like him, many in Les Républicains welcome a decision that would have the merit of "clarification" after a failed takeover bid by Macron on the party.
"The wind blows on the Côte d'Azur today and clears the horizon," laughs his enemy brother Eric Ciotti on Twitter.
“Checkmate!” Trumpets Nadine Morano.
His departure will clean up LR.
In fact, he's been away for a long time.
Tonight he's just closing the door.
"
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But behind the satisfecit, the bitterness of the sequence dominates.
“I am silent, because if I speak…”, refrains a tenor for whom “the Macron operation of destruction of the right is momentarily succeeding”.
In Paca, where the LR federations are powerful suppliers of troops, "the militants are confused", recognizes an LR framework from the South.
“In their eyes, the situation is not clear and they see that we are making the headlines on subjects very far from their concerns,” he adds.
"We are going to win this election"
“Everyone asks for“ clarification ”in front of En Marche, in front of the extreme right… It is in fashion.
If we do not "clarify"
no, we're a traitor.
We too often hear definitive words within LR, ”observes Eric Woerth, disillusioned.
"Far from a clarification, what is happening is the symptom of a political family which is struggling to embody coherence", adds the chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, who regrets the departure of Christian Estrosi .
With my friend @cestrosi, Mayor of #Nice and President of @MetropoleNCA, we won the 2015 regionals by facing the FN together.
Nobody criticizes our record!
We will win this election in 2021 and continue our action for #OurRegionfirst.
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- Renaud Muselier (@RenaudMuselier) May 6, 2021
Which does not however leave the LR campaign in Paca which he is still at the top of the list in the Alpes-Maritimes. Can he really stay that way? "It is a decision which returns to Renaud Muselier, in connection with the senior executives of the department", boot in touch Christian Jacob. "With my friend Christian […], we are going to win this election in 2021 and continue our action for our region first," Renaud Muselier confirmed in a tweet. “Well, you see, Jean-François Copé prefers to smile, we're opening the door! "
