Paris (AFP)

Muscular remarks by number 2 of LR Guillaume Peltier on the reestablishment of a "Security Court" and the regional ones aroused strong reactions internally on Sunday, the president of the party Christian Jacob calling himself to "play collectively".

"The time is not for taking personal positions that harm everyone but for mobilizing behind our candidates", responded in the evening Christian Jacob.

"At a time when LR is leading the opinion polls, I invite the management team to be in full support behind our lists. The only priority: to play together," he added.

A "judicious and welcome call to order", said the deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Constance Le Grip, deploring a "Lépine competition of proposals and personal postures".

Sunday on RTL, Guillaume Peltier reiterated his opposition to the "republican front" and in matters of terrorism he had requested "the reestablishment of the Security Court" which "on a case by case basis could place in security detention", all without call.

"If the Constitutional Council opposes it, we can propose that by referendum to the French people, to protect the French," he added.

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The LR deputy of Yonne Guillaume Larrivé quickly distanced himself from these remarks, stressing that "the possibility of appealing, in criminal matters, is neither an old age nor a fad of wicked leftist-lax, but a progress to which there is no question of giving up in a civilized state ".

"The loopholes (economic or legal ...) proposed in a personal capacity by such and such + manager + of the direction obviously do not engage the party", added in a tweet Mr. Larrivé, specialist in sovereign issues, and who had ran for LR presidency in 2019.

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Already, at the time of the psychodrama in Paca on a merger between the LR list of Renaud Muselier and LREM, Guillaume Peltier had taken against his party by asking "in a personal capacity" for the withdrawal of LR support to the president of the region, even as management tried to calm things down.

His economic proposals, in particular the idea of ​​a 20% increase in gross wages by removing social contributions replaced by a levy on financial transactions and electronic payments, also for a time made cringe at LR.

The number 2 of LR, engaged in his youth at the National Front from which he has since distanced himself, had already said his opposition to the "republican front" in an interview with Current Values ​​on Thursday, adding that, according to him, Marine Le Pen n was "not the enemy of the Republic".

He underlined Sunday "to carry the same convictions" as the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, close to the RN.

The mayor (Act) of Fontainebleau Frédéric Valletoux, in an eligible position on the lists of Valérie Pécresse for the regional in Ile-de-France, lambasted a right which "no longer hides its strategic connections and intellectual connivance with the extreme right" and is preparing "to throw herself with delight in the arms of Ms. Le Pen".

On the side of the majority, the deputy Aurore Bergé mocked a "return to square one for Guillaume Peltier", while the Minister of Foreign Trade Franck Riester estimated that "each new LR proposal is a new ideological compromise with the extreme right".

The accusations of an ideological rapprochement with the National Rally have multiplied in recent weeks, in the wake of the crisis aroused in Paca.

Particularly targeted were the MEP Nadine Morano and the MP for the Maritime Alps Eric Ciotti, for having affirmed that his party was "globally" different from the RN by its ability to govern.

An "offer of service" to the far right, according to government spokesman Gabriel Attal, for whom The Republicans "are in the process of becoming an auxiliary force for Marine Le Pen".

The president of the National Gathering has launched an appeal this week to "sincere personalities of the right like Eric Ciotti and Nadine Morano" to join her - a hypothesis declined by those concerned.

UDI president Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who initiated a rapprochement with LR in September, said on Saturday that the right had "partly lost its republican compass" against the far right.

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