• The RN candidate Thierry Mariani for the regional was traveling for the first time to Marseille.

  • He posed as a candidate for the right, after Renaud Muselier's alliance with LREM, in order to dredge his electorate.

While Les Républicains are currently discussing their strategy for the next regional elections in Paris, hundreds of kilometers away, in the peaceful Chateau-Gombert district of Marseille, on the Place des Héros, a crowd of journalists gathered. press near the fountain.

At the center of the microphones ball, Thierry Mariani, a longtime executive of the local right, made his first public appearance in Marseille as an RN candidate for the regional ones, alongside his head of the Bouches-du-Rhône list, Sandrine d'Angio .

And in the aftermath of the dramatic turn caused by the merger of the lists of outgoing president LR Renaud Muselier and LREM candidate Sophie Cluzel, at the origin of real confusion within the party, the Vauclusian's strategy is clear.

“For the moment, the one who gets rid of the party agreements is him.

He is the one who makes the combinations.

What interests me is above all this right-wing electorate who has the same values ​​as us, the same concerns as us.

I tell them, at this time, the only investiture on Renaud Muselier's list is the support of En Marche.

To vote for this list is to approve the policy of Mr. Macron.

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“Think about it.

We are the ones who carry your ideas ”

To flirt with this electorate of Muselier which he needs to access the region, this former local baron of the right in the Paca region, who even qualifies Renaud Muselier, whom he calls by his first name, of "very good friend", does not not hesitate to rely on its own trajectory.

“The ideas that I have defended for years, it is Marine Le Pen who carries them.

To those who have the same story as me, I say to them: Think about it.

In Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur, you who think that this country needs to be changed in many areas, it is we who bring your ideas.

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Asked about these priorities, Thierry Mariani notably focused on the security aspect of his program, accusing in passing The Republicans of "lacking courage".

“We promised the karcher, but we didn't hook up the hose.

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  • Nice

  • Marseilles

  • LREM

  • Renaud Muselier

  • National gathering

  • Thierry mariani