“I will not be present in Saint-Denis. » The president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, has given up on going to the new “Meeting” organized by Emmanuel Macron with all the party leaders on Friday.
In an interview with Figaro, the boss of the right-wing party criticizes in particular “yet another communication approach”. After participating in the first meeting in August, the president of LR had until then suggested that he would repeat the experience. “Rather yes,” he replied again last week about his participation, arguing that “in principle, I am not hostile to the debate.”
Neither PS, nor LFI, nor LR
But, he now highlights, “the absence of the President of the Republic on Sunday at the demonstration against anti-Semitism has finished [le] convince them not to participate.
Éric Ciotti’s refusal is added to those pronounced by the bosses of LFI, Manuel Bompard, and of the PS, Olivier Faure. Emmanuel Macron brought together, without exception, all the party leaders represented in parliament in August.