Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Wednesday February 23. He answered questions from Lorrain Sénéchal and Neila Latrous.
Sponsorships: Bruno Retailleau wants “complete anonymity” for elected officials
The president of the Les Républicains (LR) group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, proposes to “completely change the law” on sponsorships “to finally ensure complete anonymity for elected officials who wish to sponsor such and such a candidate”. According to him, a mayor risks being the victim of physical violence for having brought his sponsorship to one of them. “In a few years, violence against elected officials has tripled”, he recalled.
Regarding Emmanuel Macron’s postponed declaration of candidacy, the boss of senators LR declares : “Jupiter does not want to come down from Olympus, he wants to try to span this campaign”, he denounced. According to him, the outgoing president “refuses to debate, refuses this democratic game to evade its own record” who is “one of the worst of the Fifth Republic”.
Ukraine: the “comic stunts” diplomacy of the “very good comedian” Emmanuel Macron
“When you examine, over a five-year term, what Macron has done or has not done, you can clearly see that it is a succession of chin blows, of com’ blows that lead to nothing”, judged Bruno Retailleau. With regard to the Ukrainian crisis, “no one can blame him for having sought to speak with Vladimir Putin”the Russian president, however recognized the president of the group Les Républicains in the Senate.
“The red thread of Emmanuel Macron’s policy is communication”, insisted the support of Valérie Pécresse. For him, the President of the Republic is “a very good actor”corn “in reality”his initiatives on the diplomatic level were “concluded by failures”.