It is a bolt from the blue in Loire Valley political life. Six weeks before the first round of the legislative elections, Republican candidate in the 2nd constituency of Loiret, Orléans West, refuse to show up.
The right has betrayed the Nation
Francois Lagarde, former vice-president of the Metropolis and close to the mayor of Orléans, Serge Grouard, announced it this Sunday evening in a press release. He feels that his party did not learn the lessons of the Presidential election. ” The left has abandoned the people, the right has betrayed the Nationsums up the former chosen one.We lost 3 consecutive presidential elections and we still hold the same soothing speech from the 80s“
François Lagarde was rather close to the ideas of Eric Ciotti during the race for the presidential nomination among the LRs. He criticizes Valérie Pécresse for not having asserted enough of a line of rupture with Macronism. As for the line of independence officially reaffirmed this week by the executive committee of the LRs for the legislative elections, “it’s a decoy” according to him.
A disavowal for the boss of LR in Loiret
This defection is a blow for the Republicans in the Loiret who will have to urgently find a replacement, especially since François Lagarde had not yet appointed his deputy. It is also an admission of failure for Serge Grouard who had taken over the presidency of the party in December 2020, in particular to have control over the nominations for the legislative elections. These last weeks, the two men were campaigning together in the field…