Eric Ciotti is now the successor of Christian Jacob, Laurent Wauquiez and Nicolas Sarkozy.
He chairs the same party as them, Les Républicains;
but a party that is no longer the same, so dented has it been, so much has it shrunk, so much does it suffer from the seduction of its voters, Emmanuel Macron on one side, Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen on the other.
Artisan of a revival or trustee in bankruptcy?
The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes has eighteen months to respond, the European elections of June 2024 kicking off the next battle.
Eric Ciotti's first mission is to preserve the unity of what remains of the Republicans.
He expressed a clear intention to do so as soon as he was elected.
But it is not enough to say it.
It is difficult to remember that in the summer, Bruno Retailleau had been pushed to present himself by a number of figures from the right to prevent a Ciotti-Pradié shock, right wing against left wing, from causing the party to explode.
Five months later, it's a real anti-Retailleau arc...
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