Gaullism, Malraux said, is "the metro at rush hour". Will LR ever be a near-empty train in which the remaining passengers won't even want to sit next to each other? Faced with the malicious pleasure that Aurélien Pradié takes in making his difference heard, Bruno Retailleau or Gérard Larcher begin to brandish the need for a "clarification", a euphemism to wave the threat of exclusion. A few weeks ago, it was the boss of the young LR, Guilhem Carayon that the president of the Departmental Council of Essonne, François Durovray, wanted to see removed from his functions because of a dialogue too complacent in his eyes in L'Incorrect with his counterparts zemmouriste and lepenite.
The need to be noticed by distancing oneself from an official position - the vote of a motion of censure for one, the refusal of a "cordon sanitaire" going as far as the prohibition to speak for the other - is a classic in politics. Pradié uses and abuses it, having understood...
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