The onslaught of kindness from Eric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau did not bear fruit.

Aurélien Pradié, who came third in the first round of the election for the presidency of the Les Républicains party, will not give voting instructions for the second round, the deputy for Lot announced on Tuesday evening at

Le Figaro

.

“I will not give any voting instructions (…) I leave the members free to choose and I trust them”, indicated Aurélien Pradié, who will vote “in the secrecy of the voting booth”.

The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti collected 42.73% of the votes in the first round on Sunday, against 34.46% for the boss of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau.

Aurélien Pradié came third with 22.3% of the vote.

Pradié wants pledges on pension reform

“We have been very courted since yesterday”, acknowledged Monday a support from Aurélien Pradié by evoking the two camps remaining in the running.

“What love my friends!

“had also ironically tweeted the deputy of Lot.

"I don't think I've ever been so loved," he insists in

Le Figaro

 : "But beware of flirting, when it's not sincere and insistent, it can turn rude. ".

Asked about his contacts with his competitors Eric Ciotti and Bruno Retailleau, Aurélien Pradié claims to have congratulated them both.

But, he says, “if they want to respect the 22% of voters who trusted me, you have to be interested in ideas.

Nearly a quarter of members chose a candidate who rejected the pension reform proposed by Emmanuel Macron on the grounds that it is unfair.

I am waiting for my friends to position themselves on the pension reform before the second round;

that they say very clearly that the Republicans will not make a pact with Emmanuel Macron, nor with Éric Zemmour, nor with Marine Le Pen.

“”Eric and Bruno”, he concludes, “will they carry with us these fights which come out of the tunes and embody the right which speaks to all French people?

".

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