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The right sinks a little deeper into the crisis. Invited by our colleagues from France 2, Valérie Pécresse announces she leaves the party Republicans after the historic defeat in the European. The president of the Ile-de-France region chooses the non-party strategy.
Ten days after the historically low score of her party in the European, Valérie Pécresse takes everyone by surprise and announces she leaves Republicans to save a right threatened with extinction.
" I decided to leave The Republicans because the party is padlocked from the inside, it is padlocked in its organization, but it is also padlocked in his ideas, " says the president of the Ile-de-France region.
I decided as a free woman to leave The Republicans. I have become convinced that the refoundation of the right will not be possible within the party. # 20hF2 pic.twitter.com/RjfrLTvzc9
Valérie Pécresse (@vpecresse) June 5, 2019A year and a half after Xavier Bertrand, the former minister is therefore the same bet: rebuild the right outside the party. A party stunned by this decision. " Of course it's a surprise, " said MP Pierre-Henri Dumont, annoyed by an " umpteenth episode of the egos war that gangrenes our family ."
Pierre-Henri Dumont (LR): "The criticisms that have been made by Valérie Pécresse are unfair and violent" pic.twitter.com/bOMVRI0ap1
BFMTV (@BFMTV) June 5, 2019Ennemie number 1 of Laurent Wauquiez, Valerie Pécresse has " not even had the courage to be a candidate for her succession because she knows it, she would not have been elected " mocks a cadre of the rue de Vaugirard who holds especially a lack of courage.
What impact will Valérie Pécresse's departure have? Is this the beginning of a hemorrhage? The former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy takes in his wake a handful of parliamentarians and local elected officials. " Not enough to shade us " loose a frame, " in any case not yet ".