You have to imagine Eric Ciotti and Nadine Morano as two LR voodoo dolls.
For more than a week, the LREM camp has been baiting it with needles and evil incantations;
when, on the RN side, we heal their wounds with kisses and sweet words.
The two elected Republicans would flatter "without any modesty" the party of Marine Le Pen, estimated the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin Friday in Le Parisien - Today in France; when the Secretary of State for Disabled People Sophie Cluzel judged earlier in the week that the deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes was "already an accomplice" of the National Rally. “Well, let him adhere to it! “, She then launched on France 2.
A verse hummed in a heady way all week by Macronie.
And it's the RN who takes care of the chorus.
"When I listen to Eric Ciotti or Nadine Morano, I see sincere personalities who have convictions," whispered MEP Nicolas Bay, on France 2 on Friday.
"There are still in Les Républicains women and men of the right who refuse to compromise themselves", commented eulogy Thierry Mariani, head of the RN in Paca list, with regard to Eric Ciotti.
"An operation to destabilize the Republican right"
What could have earned them so much attention? As the regional elections approached, each of the two announced that they would not vote for their region's LR candidate in the June poll. Éric Ciotti denounces Renaud Muselier's agreement with LREM, and refuses him his ballot - in the first round in any case. Nadine Morano, left the list led by Jean Rottner in the Grand-Est because he would not share his political line, accused him of collusion with LREM, while being careful not to demonize the regional leader RN.
The Walkers as the RN know it: Eric Ciotti and Nadine Morano embody a very hard straight line in LR, which sometimes tenses up internally, but they also serve as a useful dyke, preventing some of his voters from voting for Le Pen. "All this is only an operation to destabilize the republican right, they are elements of language for Macronia like the RN," says Eric Ciotti, who claims his "non-compromise" vis-à-vis the two camps. "It can hardly go beyond at this stage, they will not switch, a fortiori to the RN in its current form," recognizes an RN executive.
The important thing was above all, for LREM like the RN, to shake the red rag of the supposed porosity of Ciotti-Morano with the extreme right, to hope to each recover a part of the electorate of this right which is struggling to recover. on foot. Political incantations.