In an open letter, the leader of the Les Républicains party refuses to be the “guarantor of a new sequence of narration which will achieve nothing” and denounces an “obsession with palaver without a future”.
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The deputy Eric Ciotti, the boss of the Les Républicains party, who refused to participate on Friday November 17 in the second “Saint-Denis meetings”, accuses Emmanuel Macron of “to feed” the democratic crisis in “multiplying” initiatives outside institutions. “You are the President of the French Republic and you must respect its institutions”writes the elected representative of Alpes-Maritimes, in an open letter of which AFP obtained a copy.
After having “Given the benefit of the doubt” during the first meetings organized on August 30, Eric Ciotti now refuses to be the “caution of a new narration sequence which will achieve nothing”castigating a “obsession with palaver with no future”.
“By multiplying initiatives outside the institutional field, you are helping to weaken them and fuel the crisis of democracy.”
Eric Ciotti, boss of the Republicansin an open letter to Emmanuel Macron
The announced absence of Eric Ciotti in Saint-Denis was decried by the Head of State as “a political mistake”. But for the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes, the discussion “must be public, either in Parliament, where the people delegate their representatives, or directly with the people themselves by referendum”. The elected official thus asks the presidential majority to support the “revision proposal” what LR is proposing to consult the people on immigration.
In addition to Eric Ciotti, Olivier Faure (Socialist Party) and Manuel Bompard (La France insoumise) this time opted for the empty chair policy in Saint-Denis. The Republicans will nevertheless be represented by the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, invited in the same capacity as the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.