The mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc leaves the party of LR. He denounces the “right-winging” and the “recoiling” of the Republicans. A decision that falls a month before the first round of the election for the change of presidency within the party.
The mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc leaves the party of LR. He denounces the “right-winging” and the “recoiling” of the Republicans. A decision that falls a month before the first round of the election for the change of presidency within the party.
In an exclusive interview he gave to Figaro, the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc announced his departure from the LR party.
“I leave without personal bitterness and I have no dispute with those who are running for the presidency: all are friends”, says the mayor LR of Toulouse. He will therefore not vote in the first round of the election for the change of party presidency.
The mayor of the fourth largest city in France explains that his decision is “an old thought that this election gives me the opportunity to make it happen.”
“I do it without controversy”he explains in Le Figaro, “after having been a loyal member for as long as it was possible for me. I warned Annie Genevard and Aurélien Pradié, in his capacity as regional leader, this weekend, then the local LR officials”.
The mayor of the city of Toulouse, whose municipal majority brings together Walkers and Republicans, believes that his political formation “is at an impasse”.
The party has curled up on a very right-wing positioning. (…) This pushed many center-right voters to join the Macronist camp and this did not in any way prevent the dynamics of the far-right vote.
Jean-Luc Moudenc, Mayor of Toulouse
Despite his “valued” for Eric Ciotti, his “consideration” for Bruno Retailleau and his “affection” for Aurélien Pradié, the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc considers that none federates enough:
“All have in common that they want the Republicans to remain alone, without concluding an alliance. I consider that this strategy of isolation leads to nothing. And I note that, in their declarations, the three candidates do not want to anchor the movement than on the right”.
Jean-Luc Moudenc also deplores that LR is moving away from the ideas of the center:
“Whoever the future president of the Republicans is, the center is therefore abandoned. Yet it was the ambition of the UMP, then of the Republicans, to bring together in a large party all the sensibilities of the right and the center. As a centrist Christian Democrat and European, I can only deplore this development and the abandonment of any centrist reference. (…) As a centrist Christian Democrat and European, I can only deplore this development and the ‘abandonment of any centrist reference’.
Jean-Luc Moudenc explains that he does not want to join the Horizons party, but sees Edouard Philippe as a presidential candidate, “if he manages to recompose a political space bringing together the right and the center, today split”, he analyzes.
Jean-Luc Moudenc, 62, re-elected in 2020 as mayor of Toulouse, was successively a member of the CDS, the UMP, then the Republicans.