the president of LR Eric Ciotti wants an alliance with the RN against the advice of several tenors of his party

The LR group in the Senate had also unanimously rejected this option, but the party boss ignored their opinion.

Eric Ciotti has therefore taken the step of an electoral alliance with the RN, after the hand extended by the far right in view of the legislative elections. He revealed this electoral agreement in the 1 p.m. broadcast of TF1, Tuesday June 11, while Jordan Bardella had affirmed that his party would support candidates “from the Republicans” to the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. Eric Ciotti says he discussed this agreement with the president of the RN and Marine Le Pen, and pleads an agreement to have “a large group” And “preserve outgoing MPs”.

This announcement is already causing very strong reactions internally. That “only commits him”reacted the head of deputies Olivier Marleix, demanding the departure of Eric Ciotti from the LR presidency. “I had Eric Ciotti on the phone several times on Monday and I even met him, he didn’t say anything to me [de ses intentions]. A political party is not just a person.”

A little earlier, Olivier Marleix had already warned the party boss, announcing that the elected representatives of his group would be candidates under their “colors”, “without arrangements”. “There is no future for device combinationsalso reacted on X Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Rhône-Alpes region. This is the voice that I will carry, without any compromise, whatever the circumstances.” Same reaction for Valérie Pécresse, LR candidate during the last presidential election. “I will never accept any compromise with the extremes, which I am convinced will lead France to bankruptcy and chaos.”

The LR group had voted unanimously for an autonomous line vis-à-vis the RN and the majority, France Télévisions learned from a source close to the matter. “We also reaffirmed our autonomy from the National Rally, commented Bruno Retailleau, president of the group. The project he is carrying is not likely to restore France, far from it. Demagoguery has never led a country.”

The president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand had demanded a “clarification” of Eric Ciotti, assuring that he would not go “not support a candidate on the right who would be supported by the RN”. “We owe the truth to our voters”he said, demanding a “clarification” this morning from the party leadership. “If some people want to go with the RN, let them say so now.”

Contacted by franceinfo, MP Philippe Gosselin judges for his part “unthinkable” THE “the slightest agreement, the slightest alliance, even local or personal” with the RN. The chosen one demands “a clear and immediate clarification on the issue”. Renaud Muselier, Renaissance president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur (Paca) region but member for years of the Republicans, “solemnly” called on Eric Ciotti’s party to renounce “infamy” of an agreement with the National Rally.