Fifteen candidates from the presidential majority will be present on the list led by Renaud Muselier (LR) in the next regional elections in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the outgoing president of the region announced Friday during a press point. Renaud Muselier also criticized certain members of Les Républicains (LR) opposed to the opening of his list who, according to him, “question the red line” no compromise with the National Front “” (today Rassemblement national).
“My political family must settle this debate which is eating away at it rather than sending me fatwas by press release,” he added. “This will be the list” Our Region first “, the list of Republicans, the right, the center and the Democrats”, launched the former Secretary of State of Jacques Chirac, explaining that “for the first time in In the history of the region, ten political tendencies will be represented, from the right to reasonable environmentalists ”.
Sophie Cluzel absent
“Of the 135 names on the list, we will find fifteen people from the presidential majority, including the four elected outgoing Modem, the others all being local elected,” said Renaud Muselier, also reporting members of La République en Marche (seven) and Agir, also a partner of the majority. Among the majority candidates are Bertrand Mas-Fraissinet, LREM referent of Bouches-du-Rhône, and Graig Monetti, chief of staff of the Minister of Higher Education Frédérique Vidal, but not in an eligible position.
On the other hand, the Secretary of State for the disabled Sophie Cluzel, ex-leader of LREM for the regional ones, does not appear there. “She was able to show responsibility,” explained Renaud Muselier. At the beginning of May, the hand extended by the latter to the presidential majority, taken up again by Prime Minister Jean Castex, who had announced the withdrawal from the Cluzel list by evoking a “political recomposition”, had created a psychodrama at Les Républicains.
After fierce debates, the party had finally decided to maintain its support for Renaud Muselier on the condition that he gives up accepting majority candidates. Asked about the risk of withdrawing LR support after the presentation of his list, Renaud Muselier blurted out: “They will do what they have to do. I have my list and it is solid. Whatever their color, their affiliation, they are from here, they are local elected officials ”. He recalled that “the backbone” of his list was made up of The Republicans. The boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau and the deputy LR Eric Ciotti have already asked their party to withdraw its support for Renaud Muselier.