who are the first Republican candidates invested as part of the agreement between Eric Ciotti and the RN?

How many candidates will be nominated by the alliance of the right and the extreme right which is sowing discord within the Republicans? The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, announced on BFMTV, Friday June 14, the presence of a common candidate “in 70 constituencies in France” for the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. “There will be around 80 candidates around Eric Ciotti from the Republican family”, added the vice-president of the RN, Sébastien Chenu, the same day on France 2. If the list of investitures has not yet been revealed, certain names have already been announced. Franceinfo takes stock of the first candidates running for the legislative elections as part of the controversial agreement sealed between the far-right party and the president of LR.

In the South, on the lands of Eric Ciotti, Christelle d’Intorni and Bernard Chaix are running under the dual label LR-RN. “We need an alliance”, justified the outgoing LR MP for the 5th constituency of Alpes-Maritimes on BFMTV. This “choice of common sense and courage” encountered a wave of indignation within her party, which decided to present another candidate against her. In response, the elected official published a message on the social network “the one and only legitimate LR candidate in the constituency”.

“The situation is critical, everyone must roll up their sleeves”estimated Bernard Chaix, vice-president of the LR departmental council, in Nice-Presse. “I am a candidate in the 3rd district. Now is the time to change things”, he told the local newspaper. The Nice elected official also committed to “meet the challenge of France’s recovery” on his social networks.

The mayor of Colombier-Fontaine, Matthieu Bloch, will seek the mandate of deputy in the 3rd constituency of Doubs. The departmental secretary of the Republicans justified his positioning with France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté by the imperative of “get closer to those who share many of our ideas”. A choice in contrast to the president of the department’s LR federation, Annie Genevard, who has been battling Eric Ciotti since the surprise announcement of this agreement.

“Today, there is no problem for us to ally ourselves with the National Rally which in no way appears to me to be an extreme right party and whose values ​​are fundamentally republican values”, argued for his part the former prefect Thierry Coudert, interviewed by the site Infos-Dijon.com. The former Parisian elected official is a candidate for the 3rd constituency of Côte-d’Or.

In Seine-et-Marne, Théo Michel will also campaign under the RN-LR banner. The vice-president of the Republicans and elected representative of the 17th arrondissement of Paris is a candidate in the 1st constituency, that of Melun. On his social networks, he called “all right-wing and patriotic voters to mobilize massively to block the extreme left” to the legislative elections.

Parisian lawyer Sophie-Laurence Roy received the investiture of “the union of the rights” in the 2nd constituency of Yonne. “I come from the Republicans, but not from the soft fringe of the LR and I thank Eric Ciotti for his firmness”hammered out the one who is already a local elected official in a village in the department, with Republican Yonne.

Alexandre Lacroix and Sébastien Muerent have navigated between several parties. Member of the Young Republicans then of Reconquête, the party founded by Eric Zemmour, the first will run in the 1st constituency of Isère. “I have been a supporter of the union of the rights for a long time, which is the only solution”he assured in The Dauphiné liberated. “I will be the candidate of the union of the rights”announced for his part Sébastien Muerant, former LR senator who moved to Reconquête, at The Val d’Oise Gazette. Ensuring you have your card at LR “since Eric Ciotti’s decision”he is a candidate in the 4th constituency of the department, he said on X.

In the 6th district of Haute-Savoie, a former magistrate, Charles Prats, is running claiming the support of Eric Ciotti and Jordan Bardella. “We have a unique opportunity to finally bring together the rights to win”he judged in Current Values. In the 4th constituency of Saône-et-Loire, the LR-RN alliance will be represented by Eric Michoux, who considers on Info-Chalon.com that“Eric Ciotti is president of the party despite what is happening”.

“We are of little use if we are not in the majority. And I am ready to make concessions to allow me to act”argues Guilhem Carayon, spokesperson for the Republicans, in The Dispatch. The president of the Young Republicans, already a candidate in 2022, announced on his “candidate to be a deputy for Tarn de combat” within the 3rd district.

Another face of LR youth, Hanane Mansouri, former president of the Young Republicans of Isère, chose to campaign in the 8th constituency of Isère. The young woman confided to Dauphiné released to have “always been for a united and strong right”. The thirty-year-old Bartolomé Lenoir, executive of the LR party and close to Eric Ciotti, announced on X his inauguration in Creuse.