Paris (AFP)
Another departure: the deputy of Haute-Savoie Frédérique Lardet, who did not obtain the nomination in Annecy for the municipal elections, leaves the LREM movement while remaining in the parliamentary group of "walkers".
"It is for clarity, since LREM has supported my opponent" in Annecy, the outgoing mayor UDI Jean-Luc Rigaut, she explained to AFP on Monday. It is therefore without a label that it will seek the town hall of the city.
Overall, "the strategy of the movement in these municipalities is very very vague, bordering on the schizophrenic. It is complicated in terms of readability," she also denounced.
Several deputies have taken a similar decision in recent weeks like Valérie Petit (Nord), who had not obtained the nomination in Lille or Annie Chapelier (Gard) who, for her part, does not recognize "anything more" in the macronist movement , but remains related to the majority group.
At the Assembly, the LREM group has recorded since the start of the legislature in 2017 a dozen dry starts, and some passages from full members to relatives.
These municipal firsts for LREM are a moment of tension for the walkers, like the situation in Paris, where the dissident Cédric Villani should be excluded from the movement as announced by the general delegate Stanislas Guerini, who will ask "Wednesday evening at the executive office to record the fact that he (Cédric Villani) is no longer a member of the Republic on the move ".
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