Regional in Paca: LR brings "its support" to Muselier, Attal speaks of regional "alliance"
After weighing their investiture, The Republicans finally decided on Tuesday to bring their “support” to Renaud Muselier for the regions in PACA.
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After having weighed their investiture, The Republicans finally decided on Tuesday, May 4 to bring their “
support
” to Renaud Muselier for the regions in PACA, having obtained the assurance that there would be neither minister nor parliamentarian LaREM on his list.
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There can be no agreement, at any level whatsoever, with LaREM,
" said LR's national investiture commission, which voted in support despite 5 votes against and 3 abstentions.
At the same time, government spokesperson Gabriel Attal assured LCI that there would "
of course
" be LaREM candidates on Renaud Muselier's list.
"
This is the meaning of this rapprochement, of this alliance that there is with
" President LR of the region.
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"
There was never any question of an alliance or an apparatus agreement between The Republicans and the Republic on the move (...) It has a rapprochement, an alliance, on a regional scale
" , he repeated. "
What the Prime Minister announced on Sunday is that we support the candidacy of Renaud Muselier and that people from the list that had been led by Sophie Cluzel would participate in this regional project
," he continued. .
In its
press
release, the Republicans party assures him that "
LaREM has demonstrated its inability to carry out a regional project
", and adds: "in
accordance with the values of our political family, we are and we will remain determined opponents of the ideology. of the National Rally
”.
The boss of the Republicans Christian Jacob had indicated Sunday that Renaud Muselier could "
not benefit from the LR nomination
" after the withdrawal, for his benefit, from the LaREM list for the June regional ones.
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This announcement, experienced as an affront and the beginning of a trap on the right, triggered a crisis at LR who fears being suffocated.
The party convened Tuesday morning its strategic committee, which ruled out any exclusion of Mr. Muselier while asking him to "
clarify
" his position.
In a
press
release, Mr. Muselier then repeated that there would be "
no agreement
" with LaREM and that he would lead "
a team whose backbone will naturally be The Republicans
".
However, he did not explicitly specify that this excluded from his lists the ministers and parliamentarians LaREM, an "
ambiguity
" regretted by the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau.
(With
AFP
)
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