The back and forth continues.
Invited this Friday morning on BFMTV, the regional councilor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and minister during the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy, Nora Berra, announced her rallying to Emmanuel Macron.
The Head of State can therefore count among his ranks a new figure from the right, while the deputy Éric Woerth and the mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart have just left Les Républicains to join him.
Note, however, that Nora Berra was no longer listed since 2017.
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"
It's a decision that is carefully thought
out," said the elected official who reports a "
binary
" choice today: "
either you support a camp on the right, where there is a kind of race of small horses to the one who will be the most radical one than the other
", or there is "
another project, the one embodied by Emmanuel Macron
".
For the regional councillor, the current Head of State, whose candidacy is long overdue, has certainly not yet "
unveiled the content
" of his project but will "
continue
" no doubt "
in the dynamic that has been set in motion since five years
”.
A distancing from 2017
Member of Parliament for eleven years, Minister of the Budget and then of Labor under the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy, Nora Berra had campaigned for Bruno Le Maire during the primary of the right five years ago.
In the wake of the presidential election, the elected official had distanced herself from the party by giving up her card.
The cause: the “
closing project
” of the then leader, Laurent Wauquiez, and the “
enormous difference
” with the right of Nicolas Sarkozy, the old “
open right, united in the center, a social right
”.
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Candidate for the 2019 Europeans, she was once again critical of her former political family, but also of the action of the president.
“
There is no real project either at Macron or at LR
”, she had thus assured to justify her presence in second position on a UDI list.
A project that only received 2.5% of the vote.