PARIS (Reuters) – Aurélien Pradié, number two of the Les Républicains party and notorious opponent of the French government’s pension reform, has been dismissed from his post by Eric Ciotti, president of the political party, a press release announced on Saturday.
The deputy for Lot stood out during the debate on the pension reform by expressing his opposition to certain aspects of the project, in particular the fate of employees with long careers, against the opinion of Eric Ciotti.
The debates on the pension reform ended Friday in the National Assembly, without the examination of this disputed text in the street which gave rise for two weeks to jousts fed in an overheated Palais-Bourbon not arriving at its term.
“His repeated positions no longer comply with the values of coherence, unity and unity which must guide the Republican right”, Aurélien Pradié was dismissed from his post, explains Eric Ciotti in a press release.
“Personal adventure in such a serious situation cannot substitute for collective action and the spirit of responsibility.”
The elected representative of the Southwest came third, behind Eric Ciotti and behind Senator Bruno Retailleau, during the ballot organized at the end of December for the presidency of the Republicans.
Gathered in the political bureau on Tuesday, the elected LR voted overwhelmingly in favor of the management line on support for the pension reform despite the “slingshot” led by Aurélien Pradié.
(Nicolas Delame, with the contribution of Sudip Kar-Gupta)
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