The member for the Loire-et-Cher and the mayor of Saint-Etienne were removed from their duties within the party, Tuesday, after posting positions contrary to the gathering line advocated by the direction of the right movement .
Le Monde with AFP
The Republicans party puts in order to walk for the presidential election, leaves to avoid some of its executives to protect its unity. The Strategic Committee of the Movement decided, Tuesday, December 7, to resubmit Guillaume Peltier and Gaël Perdria of their duties as vice-president, according to information published by Le Figaro and confirmed in the world.
No reason was officially given to explain these decisions, announced by the President of the Party, Christian Jacob, and who intervene right after the designation of Valérie Pécresse as a candidate of the right movement in the race at the Elysée. For the President of the Ile-de-France region, the time is at the gathering and “unity”, which it advocates within LR and that remarks kept by MM. PERDRIAU AND PELLETIER might threaten.
The first, Mayor of Saint-Etienne (Loire), said during the Congress he would leave the party if Eric Ciotti, who assumes a positioning on the right of M me pecresse, won the ‘inauguration. The second, deputy of the Loire-et-Cher and former member of the National Front, has reversed favorable to the extreme right. “How to stay insensitive to the speech for Eric Zemmour France?”, In particular, wrote on Twitter , Sunday, during the speech of the candidate in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“Now, it’s the time of the Unit! “
“Your word does not engage our political family. The speech of Eric Zemmour is a thousand places of our values. LR activists have chosen without appeal: Valérie Pécresse is our candidate and we will win it”, he retorted, also on Twitter , another vice -President of LR, MEPs Agnès Evren.
This is not the first time that Mr. Peltier provokes the IRE of Republican officials. At the end of May, he had assured “bear the same convictions” that the mayor of Beziers, Robert Ménard, close to the National Gathering (RN). What had worth it to be dismissed from his party number of the party – a sign of the lack of confidence that some of them, on the right, for several months. Then, at the end of November, while he was supporting Mr. Ciotti at the Congress, he said he “does not wish [to] more sealing with the electors of Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen “.
On both sides, these deviations are perceived by the direction as potential threats to the cohesion of the troops, while M me Pécresse and Mr. Ciotti are trying to put aside their disagreements. “Now it’s the time of unity!” Said the candidate on Monday on the occasion of a trip to the village of Saint-Martin-Vésubie (Alpes-Maritimes), during which she has largely Posted his intention to grant a “singular place” in his campaign to Mr. Ciotti, who came to the first round of the internal congress.
Tuesday, Mr. Jacob also announced that the Conservative movement (formerly common sense, created in 2013 to oppose the law authorizing marriage for same-sex people) and its members were excluded from the party’s bodies. An inescapable announcement after the participation of the President of the Movement, Laurence Trochu, at the Meeting of Mr. Zemmour in Villepinte, Sunday, and the support posted by the latter to the far-right candidate. One way for the right to still clarify its line before starting, really, the campaign for the presidential election.