The time for clarification has come.
Invited on France Inter Tuesday, April 26, the former head of the list in the European elections, François-Xavier Bellamy, called for lifting the veil on the intentions of each other within the Republicans.
Since the crushing defeat of Valérie Pécresse (4.78%), the party has been divided over its future.
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The MEP does not want to restrain anyone.
If some elected LR now want to change sides to join Emmanuel Macron, "
they have every right to do so, it's democracy, and there's a party for that: it's La République en Marche
".
Bellamy is targeting the various members of the party who have expressed in recent weeks their desire to move forward hand in hand with the re-elected president but are still LR inserts.
“Assume your choices”
He also mentions Nicolas Sarkozy, who supported Emmanuel Macron during the campaign between the two rounds.
“
Nicolas Sarkozy built his political career on the idea that he had to assume his choices
,” he recalled.
And to insist: “
Me, I believe that it is very important in politics indeed to assume one's choices.
I believe in the sincerity, the clarity and the requirement that we owe to the citizens.
“According to him, if the former head of state “
thinks that we must support Emmanuel Macron
”, it is therefore necessary, despite the “
greatest respect
” that he has for him, “
that everyone makes choices that are clear and that he clearly assumes them
".
In launching this call, François-Xavier Bellamy did not fail to recall that Nicolas Sarkozy had "
already, in a way, distanced himself from (his) political family
", in particular by not supporting his list during the elections. Europeans.
Once this injunction for clarification was launched, the MEP did not hesitate to criticize these possible reversals.
"
We can't act as if we don't know Emmanuel Macron's record.
We cannot act as if we find out about his politics and the way he conducts them
,” he said.
“
I don't see what there is to build with someone who has destroyed so much.
And claiming to be constructive to conceal a tactical reversal, or else an immediate opportunism, seems to me to be basically a way of further discouraging the French from believing in politics, in the constancy, in the sincerity of their elected officials
, ”he said. he still curry.
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From now on, François-Xavier Bellamy therefore wants to set a course: that of a republican right in "
opposition to Emmanuel Macron
", separated from those who "
want to support
him" and must make "
choices in accordance with their intentions
".
"
Our responsibility today is clarity
," insisted the elected official, who believes that the right "
has been discredited by its confusions, by its past contradictions
".
And to formulate a final warning: “
Today, the confusion of more, it would be the confusion of too much.
Either we are clear or we will disappear, and democracy has a lot to lose.
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