Guillaume Peltier and Christian Jacob. – Jacques Witt / SIPA
- Guillaume Peltier said Sunday to carry “the same convictions” as Robert Ménard, the mayor of Béziers close to the RN.
- The number 2 of the Republicans was cropped Sunday by the boss of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, but the exit of Guillaume Peltier created a stir on the right.
- Other LR executives have recently made ambiguous comments about the RN, such as Nadine Morano or Eric Ciotti.
Guillaume Peltier has set foot in the Béziers flat. The number 2 of the Republicans affirmed Sunday to carry “the same convictions” as the elected official of Béziers Robert Ménard, close to the RN. “He’s a very good mayor […] exchange, discuss, work with [lui] don’t bother me at all, ”he said on
RTL / Le Figaro / LCI.
“Tomorrow, to bring France together, we will need all the republicans, all the patriots, the men and women of good will”, he added, denouncing the “republican front” to better send back Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. But this statement, which comes on top of other exits from LR executives, created a stir within the right.
“Guillaume Peltier set foot on this footbridge” to the RN
And it is the boss of the Republicans who drew the first. “Now is not the time to take personal positions that harm everyone, but to mobilize behind our candidates. As LR leads the polls, I invite the management team to be in full support behind our lists. The only priority: to play together ”, Cropped Christian Jacob Sunday night on Twitter. But the exit seems to have left its mark.
“Now is not the time for a member of the leadership to go about his iconoclastic proposal on justice [Guillaume Peltier souhaite le rétablissement d’une « Cour de sûreté »], his posture, his tactics. It is an inappropriate and unnecessary personal game. Let us exist by ourselves, without giving in to the sirens of the President of the Republic and without throwing ourselves into the arms of Marine Le Pen ”, slices the LR deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Constance Le Grip.
“There is an impassable barrier with the extreme right, and some sometimes try to create a breach, it is unacceptable. Ménard can appear as a footbridge to go to Le Pen, and Guillaume Peltier set foot on this footbridge. In the middle of the countryside, this is not the time to instill doubt, it is a mistake. Either Mr. Peltier leaves the party leadership and regains his freedom of speech, or he stays but pays attention to what he says, ”adds Sébastien Huyghe, LR deputy from the North.
Erosion is usually a sign of the weather
Robert Ménard, historical supporter of the union of the rights, of course welcomed the remarks, this Monday on
BFMTV : “A new dike is collapsing. I pay homage to Guillaume [Peltier] for having dared to say what a good number of LR elected officials think, that they are closer to us, to me, than to LREM ”. Because the number 2 of LR is not the only framework to make ambiguous remarks about the National Gathering. At the end of April, Eric Ciotti said that what “globally differentiates” his party from the RN was the “ability to govern”. The elected LR of the Alpes Maritimes, who has always refused the calls from the foot of the RN, added Friday, May 21 that he did not wish
“No trial of intent” with regard to the training of Marine Le Pen, claiming to conceive “that the RN could have evolved” over time. Same tone from the MEP Nadine Morano,
who refuses “the cordon sanitaire”, yet forbidden
within his party.
“This is not my idea of the Republican and Gaullist right. I remain on the line of Chirac and Sarkozy: neither alliance nor collusion with the FN ”, breathes Constance Le Grip. “In other times, Nadine Morano would have been excluded. Despite their attempt at demonization, there are still infrequent people at the RN. Anyone who might be tempted to merge with the far right has nothing to do with LR, ”says Sébastien Huyghe. Already in the presidential campaign, Marine Le Pen, she drinks whey. The boss of the RN did not fail to indicate last week that Eric Ciotti or Nadine Moranocould make good ministers if elected president in 2022.