Frying on the right line.
While Valérie Pécresse called during a short speech to vote for Emmanuel Macron, after his heavy defeat in the first round - 4.8% according to an Ifop estimate - the LR deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti refused to vote for him. follow suit.
With
"three-quarters of the French expressed a vote of protest",
the elected representative of Nice does not see "
in what capacity he would give a voting instruction
".
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"
The French are free, but personally I will not vote for Emmanuel Macron
," he said.
And to assume the differences to come with certain members of his political family: “
There will be differences.
But I have always had the same positions, the same consistency.
To the point, moreover, of not ruling out voting for Marine Le Pen.
“
My vote belongs to me, and we will see in the days to come what will
happen,” he dodged, affirming that he “
rejects these terms (of dam) which are classic and which the French do not support more.
»
Returning also to the score of his candidate, he mentioned a “
brutal
” result.
"
It's a slap, a historic defeat for the Republican right, which founded the Fifth Republic, and which wrote the most beautiful pages in the history of France
", he recognized.
Having lost the LR Congress to Valérie Pécresse last December, the cantor of a firm line considers that the campaign of the president of the Île-de-France region “
did not work either in substance or in terms of the adequacy between (their) candidate and the people of France.
»