Aurélien Pradié, LR deputy for Lot, October 31, 2017 in Paris -

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Christian Estrosi's call to reach an agreement with Emmanuel Macron for the 2022 presidential election divides.

If the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, extended his hand to the LR mayor of Nice, Aurélien Pradié, the general secretary of the Republicans, denounced a “miserable” position.

"In order not to spoil all the talents of the right, let's make an agreement with Emmanuel Macron so that he is our common presidential candidate and that they can participate in the recovery of our country", proposed Christian Estrosi, this Monday in the

Figaro

, by setting conditions.

"Going beyond the divisions"

"I am always satisfied when personalities who today are not part of the majority, give their support to the President of the Republic, but for me, the important thing is to support the action that is being carried out, the question the presidential election is not on the agenda today, ”reacted the government spokesman on Franceinfo.

“We extend our hand to all goodwill, to all those who want to help us,” he added.

"I got involved with Emmanuel Macron in 2016 because I believe in overcoming the divisions," he also recalled.

"My ethical duty, my duty of political value, is to oppose a man (Emmanuel Macron) whose political project is not mine, not to submit with a cowardice, an opportunism that I find enough miserable ”, lamented on the other hand the number three of LR on Franceinfo, for whom“ all this does a terrible harm to our democracy ”.

For Pradié, Estrosi is sold "to the highest bidder"

"Christian Estrosi's position makes me despair of this political era," added Aurélien Pradié.

A few decades ago, the honor of politics was to defend your convictions, it was to be faithful to the values ​​in which we believed, today the honor of politics, it would be to sell oneself to the offering more, I find it totally miserable ”.

According to him, "there are real deep differences" between the President of the Republic and LR.

"Emmanuel Macron is totally subject to the effect of globalization, the republican right has always wanted to ensure that national sovereignty is stronger than anything else," he underlines in particular.

Christian Estrosi's position comes at a time when several Republican executives are making their mark for 2022: Bruno Retailleau, Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse or even François Baroin, who must clarify his intentions in the fall.

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