Paris (AFP)
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi will support Emmanuel Macron "if he is a candidate" for the presidential election, because he "best embodies" the affiliation of the right and the center, he announced on Wednesday. BFMTV and RMC.
"If Macron is a candidate I will support him without the slightest ambiguity," said Mr. Estrosi, who left Les Républicains in May.
"I am a Gaullist, I come from a family, I come from a lineage of the right and the center wanted by Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and today it is the one (Emmanuel Macron, editor's note) who embodies the better this filiation if only in the reforms which have been made ", estimated Mr. Estrosi, specifying that the support which he will bring to the President of the Republic," if he is a candidate, will not be unconditional ".
"The great ideas that we have carried behind great personalities, Pompidou, Chirac, Giscard d'Estaing, Raymond Barre, Nicolas Sarkozy and others, I want to say to all these voters who may feel orphans that we will continue to bring these ideas and that naturally the support that I will give, if he is a candidate, to Macron is not unconditional but it is to make this voice heard, "said Mr. Estrosi.
Last week, in Nice, in front of the members of his movement La France Audacieuse, the former minister of the right-wing governments of Villepin and Fillon said he was "relieved" to have "taken (his) freedom" and had widely criticized the process of nominating the Republicans' future candidate for the presidential election.
"How were they able to pass through profit and loss this great History that we have embodied? How were 23,000 able to decide how the right could be represented?", He wondered, adding that "this is no It's not even a bankruptcy or bankruptcy, no it's a liquidation. "
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