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New Aquitaine: elected Renaissance and RN tear themselves apart at the regional council

2022-12-21T18:48:05.834Z


In New Aquitaine, the regional councilors of the RN identify themselves by the scarf in the colors of the region which they had sewn at the beginning of 2022. An initiative decried by Véronique Hammerer, an opponent labeled Renaissance.


Le Figaro Bordeaux

The scarf war is launched within the regional council of New Aquitaine.

At a time when the French are facing serious unemployment and energy problems, it is grotesque and ridiculous

”, immediately castigates Jacques Colombier, regional councilor National Rally (RN) in New Aquitaine since 1986. Last Thursday, Véronique Hammerer, elected Renaissance, relaunched the controversy over the scarf in the colors of the Region worn by the majority opposition group.

"

An institution like ours must obey the rules of representation

," exclaimed the outgoing MP for Gironde in plenary session.

"

His elected officials instrumentalize a representation by a cloth that they themselves have made

",

she insulted Alain Rousset.

"

We must clarify Mr. President!

And you, you have to calm down

,” retorted the man who has led the institution since 1998 in the face of this virulent intervention.

A response described as “

sexist

” by the person concerned.

She deplores “

the lack of political courage

” of her interlocutor.

The Regional Scarf of Discord

Worn by regional elected officials of the RN for "

a year and a half

", the red scarf with white edging has been a subject of contention for only six months, according to several sources who confided in

Figaro

.

This matter is not serious, Mrs. Hammerer is navel-gazing.

She does not accept her defeat and tries to exist by all means

”, blames Edwige Diaz, who beat the outgoing deputy on June 19, 2022 with 58.7% of the votes cast.

Before adding: “

She is hateful, embittered and she is in the wrong fight.

Critics to which the elected Renaissance objects her line of defense: “

resist

” the trivialization of the RN.

Above all, she reproaches these elected officials “

to use the places of commemoration to make an abject political policy which bristles it

".

Since the beginning of this mandate, the RN group acknowledges having attended more than two 200 of these events.

Among the disputed facts cited by all parties: the laying on June 18, 2022 of a wreath in the name of the Region by Albin Freychet (RN) during a ceremony in tribute to General de Gaulle.

According to information collected by

Le Figaro

, the elected official was officially called to order shortly after by the Haute-Vienne prefecture because he did not have an official delegation to do so.

The ceremony having been brought forward due to the heat wave without Alain Rousset's delegate noticing, Albin Freychet was the only regional elected official present that day.

The problem in this story is that they are 101 advisers in the majority and that none of them deigned to move

”, insists Edwige Diaz.

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An occupation of the territory assumed by the RN

I do political recovery of the shortcomings and incompetence of the files that Mrs. Hammerer and the Macronist deputies do not know how to resolve

”, wants to “

assume

” Jacques Colombier.

Elected to the regional councilor for the 5th term, he deplores an outdated quarrel.

"

I asked President Jacques Valade for a regional scarf for the first time, when we were still under the old division

", he recalls, "

in 1987, faced with his inaction, we created a green and blue scarf , in the colors of the sea and the Aquitaine forest

”.

President of the regional council for 30 years, seventeen of which at the head of the former Region, Alain Rousset affirms in

Figaro

"

never to have seen worn in her presence nor paid attention to this green and blue scarf

".

Faced with the legal vagueness allowing this picrocholine war, New Aquitaine will set up "

a transpartisan working group

" at the start of the 2023 school year. One of the solutions envisaged is to create an institutional scarf for all.

The idea of ​​pins with the coat of arms of the Region, as mentioned in a motion by the Renaissance group (dated December 8 and finally withdrawn before the plenary session, editor's note) is also on the table.

Eventualities that still meet "

the reservations

" of Alain Rousset.

The President of the Region considers this file "

neither priority nor major

".

From the old school, the former mayor of the Gironde town of Pessac (1989-2001) only put on his tricolor for November 11 and July 14.

"

This wearing of a distinctive sign is becoming a fashion.

There is a search for visibility.

But if you are not already known for your action, it is not a scarf that will do it

, ”slices the politician labeled PS.

Source: lefigaro

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