an agreement between the majority and the LR of Hauts-de-Seine contradicted by the leadership of the right-wing party

The local federation of Republicans and the presidential camp had agreed not to compete with each other, particularly in the constituency of Gabriel Attal. But LR published at the end of the day a list of candidates who will face Macronists.

A non-aggression pact in Hauts-de-Seine? The local leaders of the Republicans and Ensemble, the label of the presidential camp, agreed not to compete in the 13 constituencies of this department of Ile-de-France, according to a press release published Friday June 14. This is where several Macronist figures appear, including Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. But the new management of LR contradicted this agreement a few hours later. In a press release, she announced the inauguration of nine candidates under her colors, including against the head of government and two ministers.

“We have decided, to block the extremes of the right and the left, to create a republican arc in our department of Hauts-de-Seine which links ‘Together for the Republic’, the Republicans 92 and the president of the department”proclaimed the press release announcing the agreement, shared by the department’s MoDem federation on X.

Among these signatories, we find the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, the president of the LR federation of the department, Philippe Juvin, the president of the UDI, Hervé Marseille, the departmental managers of Modem, Isabelle Florennes, and of Horizons, Isabelle de Crécy, as well as the president of the department, Georges Siffredi, who resigned from LR after Eric Ciotti’s call to ally with the National Rally.

“There are, at the local level, local elected officials who meet”argued Gabriel Attal, who is running again in the 10th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine, on the sidelines of a trip near Nantes on Friday. “I know that around my candidacy for the legislative elections, I have both elected or former elected officials from the socialist left who support me, as well as elected or former elected LR representatives who support me”he insisted, believing that “this is also what is happening in many territories”.

The signatories undertake not to present competing candidates to three LRs: the outgoing deputy Philippe Juvin, the departmental councilor Thomas Lam and the mayor of Clamart, Jean-Didier Berger. Stéphane Séjourné, boss of Renaissance and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will have no rival invested by LR, just like the six outgoing Macronists who are representing themselves, including Gabriel Attal and Prisca Thevenot, government spokesperson.

At the end of the afternoon, the new management of LR, whose legitimacy is still contested in court by the elected president Eric Ciotti, nevertheless nominated nine candidates. “These candidates have made a commitment (…) to sit in the LR group once elected”insists the text.

According to this press release, Gabriel Attal will have an LR opponent, just like Prisca Thevenot and Stéphane Séjourné. Faced with the outgoing Renaissance Constance Le Grip, the Republicans even announced that they would invest their deputy general secretary Geoffroy Didier. The party, however, maintains its nomination to Philippe Juvin, who had signed the local agreement as president of the LR federation of Hauts-de-Seine.

The party’s press release, however, does not mention any nominations in four constituencies where candidates from Renaissance or Horizons, the party of Edouard Philippe, are already in the running. Contacted by franceinfo, Roger Karoutchi, member of the LR investiture committee, was not able to confirm whether this choice was final.

“Our line remains the same: independence and opposition to the current majority”, had warned a little earlier, to AFP, François-Xavier Bellamy, appointed as vice-president of the party after the exclusion of Eric Ciotti. He had ruled out applying at the national level an agreement similar to that found in Hauts-de-Seine, without explicitly announcing that he was opposed to it at the local level. Renaissance had not reacted to the investitures announced late Friday afternoon.