The case still divides Les Républicains (LR) and delights the leaders of the majority.
Christophe Castaner welcomed, Sunday, the rapprochement between macronists and the right in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Paca), in view of the regional elections on June 20 and 27.
Faced with the
"National Front risk"
, favorite in the region according to recent polls,
"it was necessary to bring together"
, underlined the president of the deputies La République en Marche (LREM), in "Le Grand Jury RTL-
Le Figaro
-LCI".
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“Neither an apparatus agreement, nor an accounting approach”
: the fifteen people of the “presidential majority” integrated into the list of the outgoing president (LR) of the region, Renaud Muselier, concluded
“a political agreement on the basis of 'a project'
, according to the former interior minister.
Hence the withdrawal of the Secretary of State in charge of disabled people, Sophie Cluzel, who finally gave up standing and supported the LR list.
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A maneuver by Emmanuel Macron to fracture the right one year from the presidential election, as figures of the Republicans denounce it?
A form of
"political overtaking"
, corrects Christophe Castaner, "
as do all elected officials - mayors, department presidents, regional presidents - without falling under the diktat and caricature of the instructions of the Parisian parties."
"Irreconcilable rights"
The leader of LREM deputies condemned the firmness of LR officials who, like the number two of the party, Guillaume Peltier, and deputy Éric Ciotti, rejected this rapprochement to defend a specific line with respect to LREM and at the RN - which is lacking in the eyes of 64% of French people, according to an Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll published on Sunday.
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“We are talking about a risk of election of the National Front and they do not care. They are ready to sacrifice this region, we are not ”
, denounced Christophe Castaner, criticizing the
“ political error ”
and
“ Republican ”
of
“ putting on the same level the National Front and Emmanuel Macron ”
.
The former socialist prides himself on having shown
"political courage"
in 2015, when he withdrew from the in-between rounds in favor of the right in Paca, to
"block"
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
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Faced with tensions, at LR, between supporters of a hard line and supporters of agreements with LREM, such as the mayors who have resigned from the party Hubert Falco and Christian Estrosi, Christophe Castaner likes to describe a divided right.
"A drunken boat which no longer has a political line"
, judges the deputy for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Seeing in these dissensions the expression of
"two irreconcilable rights"
, echoing the
"two irreconcilable lefts"
portrayed by the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls.