A strange letter could well slip into the mailbox of the boss of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti.
Invited this Wednesday by France Inter, Rachida Dati swore to still be a member of LR, despite her immediate exclusion from the party upon the announcement of her appointment to the government.
“If it’s a card thing, I’ll send it back to them!”
, swept the Minister of Culture.
Before interrupting: “
That’s not the point, I don’t care actually.”
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The Paris advisor does not really want to give in to pressure from her former political family.
“I am not going to resign from my values, from my convictions
,” she assured.
Rachida Dati does not mince her words against her former comrades, however, crushing in passing the boss of the senatorial right, Bruno Retailleau,
“who spent his life betraying”
.
And to wait firmly for the
“bailiff”
that the head of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, threatened to send.
The former Minister of Justice also took the opportunity to discuss the reasons which pushed her to join Emmanuel Macron and his family
.
“There were issues in my political family that were beginning to weigh on me more and more, including on the line for the European elections
,” she detailed, targeting without naming the head of the party list, François. -Xavier Bellamy.
Tuesday evening, Rachida Dati officially handed over the leadership of the LR group at the Paris Council to Senator Catherine Dumas.
A few hours before her surprise promotion on rue de Varenne, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement had announced to the right-wing elected officials of the Parisian hemicycle that she was leaving the presidency.
Without, however, giving up his ambitions for Paris town hall in 2026.