The Republican HQ in Paris. – Â’Tristan Reynaud
Electric atmosphere on the right. The leader of the Republicans Christian Jacob called to order this Sunday evening “the management team” of the party after strong remarks from the number 2 Guillaume Peltier on justice and the regions, calling for “playing together”. “The time is not for personal positions that harm everyone, but for the mobilization behind our candidates”, reacted in the evening Christian Jacob.
“As LR leads the polls, I invite the management team to be in full support behind our lists. The only priority: to play together, ”he added. A “judicious and welcome call to order”, said the deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Constance Le Grip, deploring a “Lépine competition of proposals and personal postures”.
Security detention for terrorists
This sunday on RTL, Guillaume Peltier reiterated his opposition to the “republican front” and in matters of terrorism he had requested “the reestablishment of the Security Court” which “on a case by case basis, could place in security detention”, all without appeal. “If the Constitutional Council opposes it, we can propose that by referendum to the French people, to protect the French,” he added.
The LR deputy of Yonne Guillaume Larrivé quickly distanced himself from these remarks, stressing on Twitter that “the possibility of appealing, in criminal matters, is neither an old-fashioned thing nor a nasty leftist-lax fad, but a progress which there is no question of renouncing in a civilized state”.
“Crazy things”
“The loopholes (economic or legal …) proposed in a personal capacity by such or such” person in charge “of the direction obviously do not commit the party”, added in a tweet Guillaume Larrivé, specialist in sovereign issues, who ran for the presidency of LR in 2019.
Already, at the time of the psychodrama in Paca on a merger between the LR list of Renaud Muselier and LREM, Guillaume Peltier had taken against his party by asking “in a personal capacity” for the withdrawal of LR support to the president of the region, even as management tried to calm things down.
Engaged in his youth at the FN
Its economic proposals, in particular the idea of a 20% increase in gross wages by removing social contributions replaced by a levy on financial transactions and electronic payments, also for a time made cringe at LR.
The number 2 of LR, engaged in his youth at the National Front from which he has since distanced himself, had already said his opposition to the “republican front” in an interview with Current values Thursday, adding that, according to him, Marine Le Pen was “not the enemy of the Republic”. He pointed out this Sunday
“Share the same convictions” as the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, near the RN.