Paris (AFP)

Many Republican pundits have lamented the decision announced Wednesday by Valerie Pécresse to leave the party, while other elected officials, close to the president of the regional council of Île-de-France, have on the contrary welcomed this emancipation.

"After the resignation of Laurent Wauquiez, after the meeting around Gérard Larcher and the unanimous desire to rebuild our political family, the decision of Valérie Pécresse appears as completely incomprehensible, in its calendar, its foundation and in the formula", said to AFP the chairman of the LR group, Christian Jacob.

"Valérie Pécresse has decided to leave her party.The refoundation of the right is an imperative duty.It requires courage and out of personal logic," lambasted his counterpart in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau.

"In difficult times, we do not leave the ship," still thundered Eric Ciotti, while the treasurer of the Republicans, Daniel Fasquelle, assured that it was not "by creating as many parties as there are presidential that the right will come back to power one day. "

In an interview with the Parisian, Jean Leonetti, acting president of LR, said that "Valérie Pécresse does not represent the whole of the right".

Pécresse announced she was leaving Republicans, ten days after the historic defeat of the party's list in the European elections, and three days after the resignation of President Laurent Wauquiez.

"I have the conviction that the refoundation of the right can not be done inside, and that it must be done outside the party," she told France 2.

His decision convinced many of his relatives, including adherents to his "movement of ideas", "Free!", To imitate him: deputies Robin Reda, former presidential candidates LR Mael de Calan and Florence Portelli or the Mayor of L'Hay-les-Rose Vincent Jeambrun.

The deputy Jean-Carles Grelier, who was no longer a member of LR for two years but who sat until then in the parliamentary group, for his part told AFP that "the decision of Valérie Pécresse gives me an orientation" .

"We will see how we organize" with other members in the same approach, he continued, while the entourage of Ms. Pécresse has suggested new departures of parliamentarians from LR in the coming days.

At the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, the chairman of the LR group, Othman Nasrou, indicated on Twitter that he supported the approach of its president: "Let us salute (his) courage who wants to reinvent the right from top to bottom, It's not an easy choice, but parties are only a means, "he tweeted.

The Mayor of Evry-Courcouronnes and Vice-President of the Region, Stéphane Beaudet, also "warmly congratulated" him in a tweet.

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