During last Monday's televised debate on LCI, Aurélien Pradié who, like any challenger attacks the favourites, criticized Bruno Retailleau for not having always been in Jacques Chirac's camp.
A way of saying that his villainous past - he was for a long time the right arm of the creator of Puy-du-Fou - prevented him from truly being part of the "family".
Far from apologizing for it, the senator from Vendée again praised his
“sovereignism”
on Saturday which had led him to participate in the common fight of Charles Pasqua, Philippe Séguin and Philippe de Villiers against Maastricht, for example.
Doing partisan archeology can come as a surprise in a party that has more of a problem with its future than with its past.
The pike of the deputy of the Lot is however revealing of the propensity of the Republicans to suspect each other rather than to rejoice in the history of each one.
If, to be at LR, you have to have been a loyal chiraquian then a pure sugar sarkozyst, there won't be much…
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