Eric Ciotti will not "give anything" and denounces the "mistakes" of the government

Europe 1 with AFP 10:33 am, March 20, 2023

"I will not give in to any intimidation," said Monday the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes and president of the party The Republicans (LR) Eric Ciotti, the day after the stoned of his permanence, while denouncing the "errors" of the government that have aroused the anger of the French. An investigation was opened Sunday after damage to the permanence of the deputy in Nice.

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280 demonstrators in front of his office

About 280 demonstrators then gathered in front of this local to ask Eric Ciotti to vote the motions of censure against the government. "What is unbearable is to put pressure on elected officials to vote. I hear the anger of the French, it is the result of the mistakes of this government, but I will not give in to any intimidation, no threat, no pressure," Ciotti told BFM Côte d'Azur.

"Of course, I condemn, my principle is that we do not show violence in a democracy," reacted on RTL the boss of the RN deputies, Marine Le Pen, recalling that "the National Rally is very regularly victim of degradation of its permanences". Eric Ciotti, in favor of the pension reform, said that the "immense majority" of LR deputies will not vote for the motions of censure presented Monday after the government's decision to use 49.3 to pass its highly contested pension reform.

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Movement may harden

While some members of his group, "very few", according to him, could vote in favour of one of these motions against the government, he did not answer on an exclusion from the party of those who deviate from the line advocated. The movement "can harden, and that's why the government must be more attentive, more attentive, must treat less in particular the social partners by contempt, as it has done until today," he added.