The member of the Alpes-Maritimes, who saw Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday, presented his project on Wednesday. In an internal campaign on the right all, it feels pushing wings, persuaded that it can create the surprise during the Party Congress The Republicans.
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Happy who like Eric Ciotti makes a nice trip … candidate for the investiture of the Republicans for the presidential election, the member of the Alpes-Maritimes advances his pawns with an undisguised pleasure in a closed primer that does not say his name , resolutely rooted on the right, before the vote of the members LR at the Congress of December 4th. At ease in the debates, the one who built his political identity on the regal themes, at the heart of this internal campaign, unrolls the arguments roded for years at the right wing of the party.
Wednesday, November 17, Eric Ciotti – who spoke the day before with Nicolas Sarkozy before lunch with the former boss of the party, Laurent Wauquiez – presented his project at the party headquarters. A hundred “rupture” proposals, based on three pillars, “authority, identity, freedom”. “Less taxes and more security”, summarizes the person concerned, who claims a parentage with François Fillon, yet become a pusher for much on the right, but that he assumes to have supported until the end, including on the Trocadero Estrade, a few days from the second round of the 2017 presidential election.
Economically, it advocates the end of the inheritance tax, a single income tax rate of 15% and the removal of 250,000 staff positions. On the regally, its playground, the southern radical, which agitates the spectrum of a “war of civilizations”, defends the “national preference” on employment and housing, the return to the right of blood and the Registration of “Judeo-Christian origins” of France in the Constitution. Sunday, November 14th on BFM-TV and RMC, at the second debate opposing the five postulants, the member for the Alpes-Maritimes had multiplied the shock formulas, pronouncing for a “French guantanamo”, a “whatever Safe “or castigating the” French papers “. “I hold a line,” he says to the world. Even so much, right, come closer now. But for me, it’s an original line. It therefore appears as more sincere in the eyes of activists. ” P>
An annoyance in the party
Especially, unlike its rivals, Eric Ciotti refused to condemn the words of Eric Zemmour who, Saturday, November 13th in front of the Bataclan, accused François Hollande for “not having protected the French”. The member LR denounced the “Moscow trial” made at the identity polemicist, which he would support in case of duel in the second round against Emmanuel Macron. “In this radicalized atmosphere, it is perfectly relaxed”, observes the President of Senators LR, Bruno Retail.
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