Bruno Le Maire will not be a candidate in the legislative elections.
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced Thursday in Evreux that he would not stand for re-election in June.
“I will not seek a mandate as deputy for Eure again. I have always said that I will not serve more than three terms. I respect my promises”, he declared during a press briefing. .
The minister assured that he remained “fully committed to national politics”.
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“Since 2017, I have been taking part in government action under the authority of the President of the Republic. Along with all the other members of the majority, I have mobilized for his re-election. I deeply believe in the values and in the project that the President of the Republic defended in 2022 and which won the majority approval of French men and women,” he said in a statement to the press.
“Political life needs clarity and change in its practices” and a constituency “is neither a right nor a pension: it imposes duties including that of giving way to new or different personalities”, he said. -he thinks.
Severe on left chords
Bruno Le Maire, 53, was first elected deputy for the 1st constituency of Eure in 2007 under the UMP label. Re-elected in 2012, he retained the constituency in 2017 under the LREM banner.
Mr. Le Maire indicated that he would chair the support committee of his successor, his deputy Séverine Gipson, 51, who has sat on the benches of the National Assembly since Mr. Le Maire’s appointment to the government.
About the agreements concluded on the left with rebellious France, Bruno Le Maire estimated that “the PS no longer has a name, no more values, no more ideas. Europe Ecology The Greens no longer have a Europe or a ‘ecology only in name’.
He criticized the PS and EELV for “throwing years and decades of values and conviction overboard to keep constituencies”. “That’s not how it is with us,” added Bruno Le Maire.
According to the minister, LFI “proposes bad directions for France” and “the President of the Republic’s project is the only right path for France”.