Brice Hortefeux, Les Républicains MEP and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional councilor is the guest of Europe 1 on Saturday.
He looks back on the crisis shaking LR which led to the departure of Hubert Falco and Christian Estrosi.
He calls on the party to make an effort of "humility and cohesion" to find the path to success.
"Success unites, failure divides".
This is how Brice Hortefeux, MEP Les Républicains and regional councilor for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes analyzes the crisis currently shaking LR.
Guest of Europe 1 on Saturday he called his political family, to which he says he is "proud to belong", to "an effort of humility, cohesion and reflection" to recover from the failure of 2017. According to him, it is the only way for the party to find "the road to success" and not to remain helpless in the face of the Macron Le Pen duel.
"I am proud to belong to this political family"
"We suffered a profound failure in 2017 and there are obviously divisions," admitted the former Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux at the microphone of Wendy Bouchard on Saturday. However, he considers that this difficulty can be understood in two ways. "Faced with failure there are those who grit their teeth, roll up their sleeves and decide against all odds to remain faithful and those who decide to take side roads, perhaps to go faster elsewhere", tackle the 'MEP.
"I belong to the first category," he says. "I am proud to belong to this political family which, in its lineage, in its spirit, included in its rank General De Gaulle, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy", supported Brice Hortefeux. "We are a family with a great history and I hope they will find their way back to success." According to him, "she must make an effort of humility, cohesion and reflection" in order to achieve this.