The former number two of LRGuillaume Peltier indicates this Saturday that he will vote for Eric Ciotti in the first round of the Congress of the Republicans who will choose their presidential candidate next week.

Opposed to the idea of ​​a primary, he had shown his support for Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR) in June, before a long-awaited political office of the party which was to start the countdown for the presidential election of 2022. A choice that had earned him to be demoted from his role as number two in LR.

He had been silent ever since.

"Ciotti best understood the need for a real right"

While the members of LR have finally chosen the path of a congress to decide between the candidates, from December 1 to 4, he said this Saturday in an interview with the

Parisian

"particularly appreciates two personalities: Xavier Bertrand for his ability to beat Emmanuel Macron and Eric Ciotti for loyalty to the strong right that I founded ”. "A congress is also made to decide the political line: I therefore decided to bring my sponsorship and to vote in the first round for Eric Ciotti", he indicates.

The deputy explains his choice by the fact that "Eric Ciotti is the one who best understood the need for a true right", and "the higher his score, the more the Republican right will open up to all right-wing voters. ".

“I no longer want a seal with the voters of Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen.

How can we claim to repair France if we put aside 40% of the French?

He argues.

Gather all the lines

Asked about a possible rallying to Eric Zemmour, he argues that the question is for him "in no way up to the challenge".

“I assume I have known him for fifteen years and see him regularly.

The dynamic he represented is the symbol of the void we have left.

It is up to us to reconnect with the hope of the victory of a true right, ”he said.

And to call for "three founding acts for 2022": first to propose "a common program to all right-wing voters" around the ideas of "patriotism in the face of Islamism", "work in the face of the assistantship", "Freedom in the face of bureaucracy", "national harmony in the face of the tyranny of minorities".

Then "let us lay the foundations of a common house for all right-wing voters," he urges.

In addition to his support for Xavier Bertrand, Guillaume Peltier had made waves internally at the end of May by ensuring "to carry the same convictions" as the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, close to the RN, and by asking "the reestablishment of the Court of security" which could place in detention without possibility of appeal in terrorism cases.

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