Guest from Europe Evening, Tuesday, the RN candidate for the regional Thierry Mariani denounced the "smoking" of his LR opponent in PACA, Renaud Muselier, after the withdrawal, for his benefit, from the list of the LREM majority.

"For two years, The Republicans have been in a kind of double game," he denounces.

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"I have read and reread the two-page press release by Renaud Muselier and I believe he deserves the Nobel for smoking," insists Thierry Mariani.

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, Tuesday, the affiliate candidate RN in the regional elections in PACA did not mince words to describe his opponent LR, for whose benefit the LREM candidacy, led by Sophie Cluzel, was withdrawn.

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"The Republicans are in a kind of double game"

"For two years, The Republicans have been in a kind of double game, with a part of people who openly play the Macron card more and more (...) and a part of people who try to bring this party to life with its convictions ", says Thierry Mariani, himself from LR.

"I am not used to political nomadism", he continues, affirming to have "always defended a right line" within his former political formation.

Faced with this line, the one who is now invested by the National Gathering strongly criticizes the "defectors" who have joined the majority, citing by name the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin and the former head of government, Édouard Philippe. 

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A list to which Thierry Mariani therefore adds the name of Renaud Muselier, who however denied any agreement with LREM on Tuesday, saying that he would lead "a team whose backbone will naturally be The Republicans".

"It is obvious today that Renaud Muselier has entered into an alliance with En Marche", sweeps the candidate RN.

"For voters, it's simple, there will be people from En Marche and people from Republicans on the same list."

"The RN has nothing to do with what it was 20 years ago"

Could these "camps" within the party lead to a split? "When I look at Eric Ciotti, Guillaume Pelletier or Nadine Morano, I say to myself: 'What separates us?'", Replies Thierry Mariani. "A kind of old speech that was stalled at the time of Mitterrand-Chirac, which consists in saying: 'These people are infrequent'." And the RN candidate affirmed: "Today, the National Rally of Marine Le Pen has nothing to do with what this party was twenty years ago."