His decision is made.
On the set of LCI this Wednesday, November 24 in the morning, the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Renaud Muselier, announced his departure from the Republican party.
According to him, "
the ideas of (Eric) Ciotti are advancing
" within LR while the candidate "
conveys the ideas of Zemmour
".
Condemning a “
political drift
” and an “
omerta
” in his former political formation, the elected representative assured that he wanted to stick to his “
red line
”: “
No agreement with the far right
”.
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The situation will have turned around in less than 24 hours. At the end of the afternoon the day before, Renaud Muselier expressed, in the columns of the
Parisian
, his support for Xavier Bertrand for the LR congress scheduled for December 1 to 4. A hand extended immediately refused by the principal concerned, on the grounds of the "
attacks
" of the elected against Eric Ciotti and David Lisnard, recently elected at the head of the AMF.
The episode, marked by twists and turns, is part of the older context of regional.
Last June, Renaud Muselier indeed drew the wrath of part of his political family by merging his list with macronists to oppose the candidate of the National Rally, Thierry Mariani.
If Eric Ciotti gave him his voice in the second round, the president of the LR federation of the Alpes-Maritimes abstained from the first, declaring that his "
confidence
" had been "
betrayed several times in an electoral grub concocted in the kitchens Elyos
”.
A year marked by tensions
Defenders of Renaud Muselier's strategy, the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, and the city councilor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, had in turn left the party and condemned its "
violence
" as early as May.
"
Not to be in favor of the union, while the threat of the coming to power of the National Rally has never been so strong, amounts to playing its game
", then declared Hubert Falco in
Le Figaro
.
The two elected subsequently turned to Emmanuel Macron.
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The last few weeks have also been marked by strong tensions. At the end of October, the elected representative of the Paca region affirmed that he would leave
LR
“
without hesitation
” in the event of Eric Ciotti winning the congress. “
It's not my right,
” he said. "
Muselier is the small telegraph operator of Macronie
", retorted the candidate.
More recently, Renaud Muselier has widened the gap between his political family and himself a little more.
A few days before the AMF poll, the elected representative gave his support to Philippe Laurent, leader of a list comprising a certain number of Walkers, rather than to the LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard.
With, once again, the regional as a backdrop.
In a letter addressed to local elected officials, Renaud Muselier thus estimated that "
such a function cannot and should not be assumed by a mayor who has never known how to call to vote in favor of the republican political forces in regional elections. last June, in spite of a consensus which had been created vis-à-vis the National Rally
”.
