The president of the Les Républicains party refocused the party’s elected officials who had gone to the political return of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin at the end of August in Tourcoing (North), without ruling out sanctions, according to corroborating sources. “I have not yet made a decision on this subject,” said Éric Ciotti during the party’s political office which was held Tuesday evening in Paris, said a person present at the meeting.
“But I want to tell you that I did not at all appreciate the presence of some of you at the home of a government minister while we were making our grand return to the Alpes-Maritimes with the majority of our elected officials,” added LR number 1, to the applause of those present, indicated the same source. “He threatened those present in Tourcoing,” explained an LR executive who nevertheless thinks that this reframing was “more for form than anything else”.
Deputies, a senator…
In Le Figarothe LR mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne, Zartoshte Bakhtiari, had called Éric Ciotti a month ago to sanction the deputies Alexandre Vincendet and Virginie Duby-Muller, present at the house of the ex-LR Gérald Darmanin on August 27, the day where the right made its grand return to Le Cannet in front of more than 2,000 people.
Close to Bruno Retailleau and president of the LR federation of Bouches-du-Rhône, senator Stéphane Le Rudulier, who also went to Tourcoing, was the only one present at the LR office.
Around 700 people attended the return to school organized by the Minister of the Interior in his electoral stronghold in the North where other LR elected officials were present, including the senator from the North Marc-Philippe Daubresse, Jérôme Lavrilleux, former advisor to Jean- François Copé, and the former minister Catherine Vautrin, whom Emmanuel Macron had once considered appointing to Matignon.