The candidate for the head of the Republican party also dismissed the hypothesis of a “union of the rights” which “would only lead to our disappearance”.
Éric Ciotti, candidate for the presidency of the Republicans, said to himself on Monday, October 24 “totally opposite” to a pact with the government, unlike Nicolas Sarkozy who urged Emmanuel Macron to pass a “political agreementwith LR. “We do not ally with a power that will have damaged France so much“, decided the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes in an interview with opinion .
The union of the rights “would only lead to our disappearance”
The putative candidate for the head of the party has also ruled out the hypothesis of a “union of rights“with the RN who”would only lead to our demise“. On Sunday, former President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Emmanuel Macron in an interview to turn to the right “more frankly“, and to conclude a “political agreementto make up for his lack of an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
The same day in the JDD Éric Ciotti co-signed, with 53 of the 62 deputies of the LR group in the Assembly, a platform explaining that they would not vote for the motions of censure of the Nupes and the RN on the budget debated Monday in the Assembly so as not to trigger a “political and institutional crisis“, despite a budget “extremely disappointing» and an attitude «irresponsible” of the government.
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They also called on the government toTo hear» the oppositions and reaffirmed their «opposition to decisions made by the executive“. “In the Assembly, we can only limit the damage done by the current government“Eric Ciotti further advances on Monday, who identifies Emmanuel Macron as his party’s first opponent.
“It is to him that we owe the advanced deterioration of the situation in our country“, criticizes the deputy, speaking of a balance sheet “deplorable“. “Faced with this power which is coming to an end, Les Républicains must embody a responsible, serious and credible alternation. We cannot let the French have to make a worrying choice between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen“.
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