Raffarin still adheres to LR, but "closer to the Macron project" on Europe

Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said on Sunday that he would "decide" whether he remains within the Republicans according to the party's position on Europe, stressing "today closer to the Macron project" ".

Asked about RTL and LCI on his retention in the formation chaired by Laurent Wauquiez, Jean-Pierre Raffarin explained "wait for the position of the Republicans on Europe". "For me, this is the central topic: it's the question of security, the economy, it's the question of our destiny, it's on this subject that I'll decide," he said. argues, indicating that he was "always at the party Republicans", "updated contribution".

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"Wauquiez is not really trying to create the rally." The former tenant of Matignon, favorable to the "idea of ​​coalition", wants to choose "the best European, the best incarnated". "If I look at the project today, I am closer to the Macron project," he agreed. "I see on the European file a questioning (on the part of LR) which seems extremely dangerous to me," attacked Jean-Pierre Raffarin, considering that "Laurent Wauquiez does not really try to create the rally". "Is the project (LR) really European? I wish the composition of the list," he still doubted, adding further that "France has no interest in bringing down its pedestal the President of the Republic ".

A "sympathy" for Emmanuel Macron. Support to the Head of State? "See a sympathy," said the former tenant Matignon. "On Europe, we agree, it remains to know how we will build this work of reform of Europe, and with which allies". About François-Xavier Bellamy, who holds the rope to lead the LR list to European women, the former prime minister said "do not know him, but have only read".

"Europe is full time". This 33-year-old Versailles politician, a conservative philosopher, unknown to the general public but who has made his mark among opponents of the opening of marriage to same-sex couples, is "someone respectable , like many people, "according to Jean-Pierre Raffarin. "What I would like is that at age 33, he is really committed to Europe, that it is not an activity among others: teaching, literature ... Europe, it's full time and it's for a long time, "warned the former boss of the Poitou-Charentes region.