Valérie Pécresse announced Wednesday leave The 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.
Refound the right "from the outside". "I have the conviction that the refoundation of the right can not be done inside, and that it must be done outside the party", explained the president of the Île-de-France region according to which "the party is padlocked from within, in its organization but also in its ideas".