Laura Laplaud
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9:22 a.m., December 15, 2022
With 53.7% of the vote, Éric Ciotti was elected new president of the Republicans on Sunday evening against Bruno Retailleau. An arduous mission awaits the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes: that of bringing together his political family. For Marion Maréchal, vice-president of Reconquête, guest of Europe Matin, “the future of the right will not be written within the LR”.
Éric Ciotti, new president of the Republicans (LR), will he be able to bring his political family together? “I want a right of order, gathered on right-wing ideas”, declared the successor of Christian Jacob at the head of the party. The new president of the Republicans must now face this challenge, which will be far from easy according to Marion Maréchal, vice-president of Reconquest. “I do not believe that the history of the right and the future of the right will be written within the LR. For a simple reason: it is a party which remains torn between half of members who want to go towards the union of the rights and the other half towards Emmanuel Macron”, she declared at the microphone of Europe 1 Thursday.
“I’m a little afraid that Eric Ciotti will end up being the Olivier Faure of LR”
The new president of the political formation has benefited from numerous supports from Sarkozyists like Nadine Morano and Brice Hortefeux, and from Chiraquians like Christian Jacob or François Baroin. “At the end of this election, in the end, Éric Ciotti ended up being supported by Chiraquians like Mr. Baroin, Mr. Jacob and in my opinion, the necessary break of the LRs with what betrayed the right goes beyond the Sarkozy’s legacy. The decline dates from the Chirac era, but the Chirac assessment has never been done and it clearly did not yet want to be done by part of this ruling class”, assured Marion Maréchal.
“I’m a little afraid that Éric Ciotti, unfortunately because I have sympathy for him, will not end up being the Olivier Faure of LR”, she decided. “Today I haven’t heard Eric Ciotti reach out. I see him going back to his old ways, which is finally isolating himself and I’m not sure that it’s in isolation that they will find a exit solution”, concluded the vice-president of Reconquest on Europe 1.