It is the promotion of a devotee among the devotees.
Close to former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, the mayor of Ajaccio Laurent Marcangeli was elected on Wednesday June 22, by acclamation, leader of the Horizons deputies in the National Assembly.
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By taking the head of this group of 29 elected officials, this lawyer by training imposes himself, at 41, as a centerpiece of the presidential camp, in a fragmented Assembly and without an absolute majority.
He will be assisted by a vice-president, the former Walker Naïma-Moutchou, and a spokesperson, the mayor of Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) Frédéric Valletoux.
loyal friend
Édouard Philippe knows he can count on a loyal friend to lead his troops.
The two ex-Juppe mayors met on the benches of the Assembly, where they entered the opposition the same year, in 2012. Forced by the non-cumulation of mandates, Laurent Marcangeli then preferred his city to his seat as a deputy.
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In Corsica, in recent years he has cultivated his role as the first opponent of the separatist Gilles Simeoni, whom he failed to dislodge during the territorial elections in 2020. He has received Édouard Philippe on his land several times in recent months, in testimony to his closeness to the president of Horizons.
