Paris (AFP)

National Rally number two Jordan Bardella assured Wednesday that his party had "a lot in common with the electorate" of the Republicans party, which has just been torn apart over whether or not to make an agreement with LREM in the first round regional elections in Paca.

The Republicans finally maintained Tuesday their "support" to Renaud Muselier, LR candidate to his succession at the head of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in exchange for the assurance that there would be "no agreement with LREM "despite the announced withdrawal from the Macronist list.

Renaud Muselier "wants to keep his seat at all costs", he is "obliged to make an alliance with the Macronists because he knows that otherwise the RN is in a position of strength to win the region", estimated on LCI the vice-president of the RN , who wanted to distinguish "the LR from above who go to soup with Emmanuel Macron and the LR from below".

He argued that the RN candidate in this region, former Sarkozy minister Thierry Mariani, had "seen The Republicans scuttle themselves and turn to Emmanuel Macron, and deny their convictions".

"However, today we share a lot of points in common with the electorate of the Republicans. And Marine Le Pen in 2022 will also be the candidate of all this popular, social right, which today aspires to restore order in the country "and which" shares with us this desire not to re-elect Emmanuel Macron because a new five-year term of Emmanuel Macron would be a new five-year term of disorder, chaos, violence, "added Mr. Bardella.

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