The UDI adopted Saturday, during a National Council, a project in eight axes for the presidential election of 2022 and warned that its support for the candidate invested by the congress of LR would not be "automatic", excluding already any possibility of support for Éric Ciotti.
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The president of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde regretted, in his closing speech, that by reserving the vote to only LR members, the Republicans missed the opportunity to
"be able to invest on December 4 a candidate of the right and from the center ”
.
Thus
, "the support of the UDI will not be automatic and it will be up to the candidate invested by the LR to bring together the center on the basis of a shared project, in accordance with our values and the adopted proposals"
, estimates Jean-Christophe Lagarde. .
"The UDI will not support any candidate in any situation"
, underlined the president of the UC group in the Senate Hervé Marseille, quoted in a press release published at the end of the national council.
No support for Ciotti
Jean-Christophe Lagarde has already ruled out any support for Eric Ciotti:
"If Ciotti is chosen as a presidential candidate, it will be without the UDI,"
he said clearly in an interview in Nice-Matin on Saturday.
“If Michel Barnier obtains the nomination of his party, we will meet him after December 4. But for Eric Ciotti this is not possible. We cannot discuss with someone who says he is ready to discuss with Eric Zemmour. We will never support him! ”
, he assures.
After a possible discussion with candidate LR,
"the decision to support the UDI will be subject to debate and a vote by the National Council
,
"
UDI said in its statement. The eight axes of the presidential project of the UDI adopted on Saturday aim to
"provide solutions to the urgent and the essential"
, in the fields of "solidarity",
"the climate emergency"
, the
"resorption of the debt "
, a
" new decentralization "
of
" excellence in education ", the" technological competitiveness "and" the challenge of Africa "
, the statement said. No mention, however, of the themes of security and immigration,widely debated within LR in recent months.