LR Senate president Gérard Larcher and LR deputy boss Damien Abad were categorical on Wednesday about any alliance of their party with Debout la France for the regions.
They notably pointed out the rallying of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan to Marine Le Pen in 2017 to justify their opposition to the agreement sealed in Burgundy.
The LR president of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the boss of LR deputies Damien Abad opposed any alliance of LR with Debout la France on Wednesday, facing that sealed in Burgundy-Franche-Comté by Gilles Platret for the regional elections.
"Not an alliance of devices"
At the time when LR has stepped up to prevent an alliance between the candidate LR Renaud Muselier and the LREM candidate Sophie Cluzel in Paca for the regional ones, why does the right-wing party not react to the situation in Burgundy?
"It is not of the same nature (...), it is not an alliance with Debout la France, it is not an alliance of devices", argued Gérard Larcher on franceinfo.
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The fact remains that "we cannot ally with Debout la France as long as Debout la France has not given up on the strategy which had led it in 2017 to support Marine Le Pen", the president of the National Rally, a- he added, saying he was "extremely clear" that LR would "never make an alliance with the National Rally".
"I myself told Gilles Platret what I thought of it, that it was not my choice, he heard me, we'll see," he concluded.
"The fight against the RN must be total"
On Sud Radio, the boss of LR deputies Damien Abad said he was "against this alliance and any political agreement with Debout la France", while "Nicolas Dupont-Aignan was to be the Prime Minister of Marine Le Pen" and that "the combat against the RN must be total, without possible ambiguity ". And "if here or there there are people from Debout la France who are former RPRs, I tell them that they are joining our political family," added Damien Abad.
Gilles Platret, he defends his line and wants to be reassuring: in Burgundy "there will be a few posts of regional advisers with people who were at Debout la France, who are sovereignists and who, for those who are taken, have never been elected from the National Front ".
"You know, the sovereignists, some time ago, they were still with Les Républicains", he argued on RFI.
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Gilles Platret, head of the list and mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire), reputed to the right of the right, announced at the end of April that he entrusted the head of his departmental list in Nièvre to Pascal Lepetit, head of DLF regional federations and former member of the National Front.