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A. GELEBART / 20 MINUTES

One more departure for La République en Marche.

Emmanuelle Fontaine-Domeizel, Christophe Castaner's deputy in the National Assembly decided to leave LREM by invoking the “vagueness” of the presidential party and its rapprochement with the right, in a letter sent to AFP on Thursday.

"The barely veiled declarations of rapprochement between the Republic on the march and the traditional right, even hard, for me accentuated the vagueness of the movement", writes Emmanuelle Fontaine-Domeizel in this letter to the authorities of the party.

She did not vote for confidence in Jean Castex

Emmanuelle Fontaine-Domeizel sat at the Palais Bourbon after the appointment in 2017 of Christophe Castaner to the government, of which he was spokesperson, Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament and then Minister of the Interior until the beginning of July 2020. Having Having recovered his seat as deputy for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Christophe Castaner took over as head of the LREM group in the Assembly last month.

This liberal nurse assures that her distancing from the movement was nourished in particular by "the government's lack of will to overcome the shortcomings of the health care system".

She adds that she did not vote for confidence in Prime Minister Jean Castex.

"Attached to the values ​​of the left"

Emmanuelle Fontaine-Domeizel says she waited to confirm her "detachment from the movement" because "a premature announcement would inevitably have had an impact" for the appointment of Christophe Castaner as president of the parliamentary group.

Declaring herself "attached to the values ​​of the left", she indicates that she "will continue to sit within the majority of the departmental council (of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) as various left", alongside the elected socialists .

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