An LR deputy calls for "a new majority" with Macron, if Pécresse is beaten

Europe 1 with AFP 4:35 p.m., March 22, 2022

Guillaume Larrivé, LR deputy for Yonne, "would have liked to be able to put a ballot + Nicolas Sarkozy + in the ballot box", and assures in an interview with Le

that he will vote "fairly for Valérie Pécresse on April 10".

He calls on his party to "build a new majority" with Emmanuel Macron in the event of the elimination of Valérie Pécresse in the first round of the presidential election, noting "strong convergences" between the projects of the two candidates. 

Building a new majority for France

He pleads for LR "not to lock itself nationally into the trap of protest, but to be a real force of proposal".

"The systematically anti-Macron posture of the campaign is a mistake, because it corresponds neither to the reality of the balance sheet of the five-year term, which is much more nuanced, nor to that of Emmanuel Macron's project", criticizes the deputy.

Thus, "if Valérie Pécresse is eliminated on the evening of the first round, I will commit myself so that Emmanuel Macron is again president and so that the Republicans participate, in the Assembly, in building a new majority for France", indicates Guillaume Larrivé, the only deputy in his group to have voted for confidence in Jean Castex in the summer of 2020 in the midst of a health crisis.

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"Obviously, there are now strong convergences between the project presented by LR and the presidential project of Emmanuel Macron", he justifies, believing that "this should make it possible to lay the foundations for joint action !".

During "this hour of truth", "LR executives" who "would be tempted by a merger with the Lepenist party or with the Zemmourist movement" would make a choice "deeply contrary to the national interest" and would commit "a fault against France and against the Republic", he warns.

Asked about these remarks, Bruno Retailleau, the boss of the LR senators and adviser in charge of the first 100 days of Valérie Pécresse if she were elected, quipped Tuesday on RFI: "that, the attraction of the dish of lentils, it is a figure as old as the world, like politics", he reacted, judging the "two very different projects on the sovereign, security, immigration, debt".