faced with multiple candidates, how can we recognize the candidates of the LR-RN alliance on campaign posters?

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The president of the Republicans Eric Ciotti has decided to reach an agreement with the National Rally and to present candidates under a common banner with the far right. The campaign posters were therefore adapted.

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Jordan Bardella and Eric Ciotti, on the set of France 2, during a political debate on February 2, 2023. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

The political crisis on the right initiated by Eric Ciotti has concrete consequences on the campaign posters for the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. The president of the Republicans concluded an agreement with the far right against the advice of the main executives of his party and decided to present 62 candidates under the dual label LR-RN.

A battle which ended up in court: Eric Ciotti was unanimously excluded on Wednesday June 12 from LR, by a political office of the party, before taking the matter to the Paris judicial court, which finally temporarily canceled his exclusion by ruling in summary proceedings on June 14. The court, however, refused to rule on Eric Ciotti’s request for a ban on the use of logos and brands belonging to the Les Républicains association. A final decision will be made during a hearing on the merits.

But while waiting for the courts to rule on who owns the logos and brand “Les Républicains”, a certain cacophony reigns in the posters… and can sow doubt among certain voters.

So who is from which party? If the posters of the RN candidates are quite easy to read, since all bear the party logo, things get a little complicated for the “LR-RN” candidates. The “Ciottistes” candidates have in fact opted for the erasure of the LR logo and instead include the formula “Republicans on the right” at the bottom of their posters, attached to the RN logo and the words: “supported by the National Rally”.

You can also find posters with the formula “Republican candidate” Or “to the right”but each time, the party logo with the flame also added as support.

On Hannane Mansouri’s campaign poster for example, former president of the Young Republicans of Isère who chooses to campaign in the 8th constituency of Isère, we can see the portraits in large format by Eric Ciotti and Jordan Bardella, no LR logo, but we can clearly see the wording “Republicans on the right” “supported by the National Rally”.

For the candidate Guilhem Carayon, nominated by Eric Ciotti in the 3rd constituency of Tarn, we read a somewhat similar formula “republican candidate” “supported by the National Rally“, and always the photos of Jordan Bardella and Eric Ciotti.

If the LR logo was erased from Eric Ciotti’s candidates, it is in anticipation of a court decision which could potentially prohibit the use of the logo, admits a spokesperson for the LR president. “We are going to have a lot of elected officials, we have to secure them”he confides.

Eric Ciotti’s candidates therefore did not display the LR logo to avoid rendering all their campaign material (posters, leaflets, etc.) obsolete, but also to avoid a potential challenge to their election after the vote. . “No general instructions have been passed”, we confide, but “we coordinated” on the choice of formulations to use, recognizes this spokesperson for Eric Ciotti.

“The urgency was not marketing but to have as many candidates as possible.”

A spokesperson for Eric Ciotti

at franceinfo

Eric Ciotti’s clan also notes that many “non-Ciottist” LR candidates have also chosen not to use the LR logo.

And that’s true. The absence of an LR logo does not necessarily indicate a joint candidacy with the National Rally. This is particularly the case on Aurélien Pradié’s campaign poster, for example. The outgoing LR deputy from Lot does not display an LR logo, even though he is one of the Republicans who rejected any alliance with the RN. Contacted to explain the reasons for the absence of the LR logo, Aurélien Pradié indicated that he did not wish to comment on this subject.

Conversely, Annie Gennevard, general secretary of the Les Républicains party, clearly displays the LR logo on her poster. Contacted by franceinfo, she also did not provide an explanation for this choice.


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