Regional in PACA: the mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco leaves Les Républicains
The mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, April 28, 2021. AFP - NICOLAS TUCAT
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Renaud Muselier has reworked with Les Républicains.
The outgoing right-wing president of the PACA region has regained the nomination of his political family after two days of crisis.
The announcement by Jean Castex on Sunday of an agreement with Renaud Muselier for the next regional ones had provoked an outcry on the right.
But the LR blasting operation finally paid off.
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Hubert Falco, the mayor of Toulon, announced this Wednesday morning in
Le Figaro
his departure from the Republicans.
A real thunderclap for LR.
Hubert Falco is a local baron, re-elected mayor of the Var city for 20 years.
Close to Emmanuel Macron, it is he who built a bridge with Renaud Muselier and he regrets the “
narrowing of the line
” of LR.
Proof that the political recomposition is still not over.
The torpedoing operation of the right in PACA was launched Sunday by Jean Castex.
The Prime Minister announced it himself, with great pomp, on the front page of the
Journal du Dimanche.
The head of government, from the Republicans, wanted to claim a political victory and wreak havoc on his former camp.
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An adviser to a right-wing minister deciphers: "
Jean Castex seeks to assert himself as the leader of the majority ... He wants to prove that the beam still works on the right, even without Edouard Philippe
".
If the Republicans have kept Renaud Muselier, they could see other local elected officials leave, in the wake of the mayor of Toulon.
We obviously think of the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, another architect of the stillborn agreement with Renaud Muselier.
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