Suspected by many of wanting to join the presidential majority, the president of the LR deputies, Damien Abad, is running in his constituency of Ain, where no candidate from La République en Marche will be invested, confirmed this Friday Stanislas Guerini.
“I confirm that we will not invest a candidate in this constituency,” underlined the boss of La République en Marche on France 2. Because the presidential majority wishes to “welcome the posture of responsibility and the clarity” of the boss of the LR deputies between two rounds of the presidential election when he had clearly called for Macron to vote against Marine Le Pen.
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“Damien Abad, at a time when his political party was once again choosing not to make a choice between the far right and Emmanuel Macron, in a ni-ni, a form of ideological and political sinking of his party, s is set back from it in an extremely clear way”, underlined Stanislas Guerini.
"That does not mean that he agrees with the entire program carried by the President of the Republic, otherwise he would have joined us and would be invested by the presidential majority", he added.
The majority, united under the confederation “Together!
“, announced in recent days the names of its candidates in 548 constituencies out of the 577, although it should ultimately give up presenting candidates in about fifteen territories.
A particularly scrutinized constituency
The fifth constituency of Ain was particularly scrutinized because Damien Abad, president of the LR group in the National Assembly, is the subject of speculation about a possible rallying to the macronie, tenfold since the revelation of a recent meeting with Thierry Solère , ex-LR who became an adviser to Emmanuel Macron.
At the end of April, Damien Abad was also one of the only two to abstain from the LR strategic committee during the vote on a motion affirming the "independence" of LR against Emmanuel Macron.
