INTERVIEW
8.44%: The Republicans, no one denies the electoral disaster suffered on Sunday during the European elections. But not everyone agrees on the lessons to be learned. If several members of the party call its president Laurent Wauquiez to resign, Eric Ciotti, he does not share this opinion. "It would probably open a new crisis," he said Tuesday night on Europe 1.
"This defeat is collective"
"Laurent Wauquiez was elected, he delivered this fight with a lot of strength, and this defeat is collective", hammered the MP LR of Alpes-Maritimes, at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk. Gerard Larcher, went on the offensive by initiating a few hours earlier a "step" to "rebuild a project that brings together the right and the center", the elected responds: "We will not get things done by reopening electoral debates We will advance our political family in unity, in the gathering ... All those who want to contribute to the unity and the gathering are welcome, but within the framework of our political family ".
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Foot call to Xavier Bertrand
This raises the question of the men and women chosen to rebuild. In this case, the names whispering in the corridors of the National Assembly are mostly male. There is Dominique Bussereau, the head of the French Departments, Hervé Morin, the President of the Regions, François Barouin, that of the Association of Mayors of France ... Éric Ciotti, him rather enjoins to look "towards personalities like Xavier Bertrand who in these times removed from our political family, have not yet crossed the red line of support for the Renaissance list, as did Jean-Pierre Raffarin ", the former Prime Minister having announced his support for LREM last March.
The opposite may be true. The co-founders of the party Agir, ex-LR pro-Macron who made an alliance with La République en Marche for the European elections, "solemnly" called, on Tuesday, "the local elected representatives of the right and center right who want to put the interest of their territory first and foremost to join them ".