This is enough to clarify once and for all the position of Eric Ciotti, unfortunate candidate for the primary on the right and who had estimated the day after the results that the winner Valérie Pécresse “was not sending the right message”. Close to the line of Eric Zemmour on certain themes, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes to call the voters of the polemicist to vote for the LR candidate “if they want to beat Emmanuel Macron”.
“Only Valérie Pécresse can win. Eric Zemmour cannot win, because he has a profile which cannot be at the heart of a gathering of all those who no longer want Emmanuel Macron ”, stated Eric Ciotti at the“ big meeting ”Europe1 / CNews / Les Echos. “Valérie Pécresse will be at the heart of this gathering which will come from all sides to beat Emmanuel Macron”, he continued.
“There is only one candidate who can stop the French decline”
For the LR deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, the voters of Eric Zemmour “today want us to change, for there to be more security, less immigration, less taxes”. “They must be aware that if we want to save the country, we must stop the French decline which is associated with the Macron-Hollande management. If we want to stop that, today there is only one candidate who can do it ”. In addition, Eric Ciotti also considered that the candidate of Reconquest “is seriously mistaken” in his reading of the Vichy regime, a few days after a visit by Emmanuel Macron in the spa town.
Asked about his differences with the LR candidate, Eric Ciotti said he shared “a communion of values, ideas and objectives with Valérie Pécresse”, assuring that he will be “totally committed behind her”. Relaunched on her proposal for the creation of a “French Guantanamo”, which the president of the Ile-de-France region refused to take up, the deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes argued that “she has in her project the security detention for Islamists leaving prison ”. “That’s what I mean and that’s what I’m asking for,” he said.