For the Mayor of Saint-Etienne, Valérie Pécresse “is today between two chairs”. It ensures that “in the state”, it will not vote for it in the presidential election.
Le Monde
It’s not because Valérie Pécresse is now the official candidate of the Republicans (LR) party that the disassembly are completed within his political family. Scarted Tuesday, December 7 of the Party Vice Presidency for asserting that Eric Ciotti’s victory he would leave the party, Gaël Predria, Mayor of Saint-Etienne, estimated on Wednesday, December 8 on RMC that it” disturbs “internally from its party,” because [it] said truths that some do not support “. The Edile thus denounces again “the rectitude” of LR and reported that it would not vote “in the state” for Valérie Pécresse, “who plans to govern with Eric Ciotti”, during the presidential election 2022 .
“Unlike others, I have not changed” line, has advanced Gael Predria on Wednesday. It means in particular reference to M me pecresse, “who had been part of denouncing a party’s remembrance” in 2019, when she left the LR party, before going back this year to participate in the Congress . “And today, what is criticized for me,” said Saint-Etienne.
This reignation of his political family is, according to him, embodied by the member of the Alpes-Maritimes, arrived second in the race the nomination of the party with 39% of the vote. In addition to assuming a line very right within the party, Mr. Ciotti had stated that in the case of second round between Eric Zemmour’s extreme right candidate, he would support the second. He has also maintained cordial public exchanges with the Congress on Twitter.
He castigates the break “of a dike” against the extreme right
To defend “a social gaullism”, in the steps of the line worn before to the party by “Philippe Séguin” Mr. PERDRIAU “denounces” so again “the remembrance” of his party, the words that have valued him Its laid away from the duties of vice-president, Tuesday, by the Strategic Committee of the proceeding. “When we are in a heir party of Gaullism, we can not promote the Petainism,” he continued, with reference to the words held by Eric Zemmour on the Petain Marshal regime.
The elected also denounces that the day before, Nadine Morano, a part of the party, he, according to him, explained during the strategic committee “that Eric Zemmour is his friend” and that we must continue to consider it. According to him, “there is a dike” against the extreme right that gives internally to the party.
“What I’m asking Valérie Pécresse is to set these limits,” he continued, adding that it is she who is “today between two chairs”. Regretting that the party candidate who attended the Strategic Committee remained “obviously silent” during his eviction of the vice-presidency of the proceeding, Gaël Perdria suggests that “in the State” he would not vote for Valérie Pécresse since it “plans to govern with Eric Ciotti” during the presidential election 2022.
On the other hand, the latter, very critical towards Mr. Macron, said he does not want to leave LR, rather “change the things from the inside”. Asked about a possible rallying to Horizons, the party created in October by the former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron, Edouard Philippe, the latter claimed, “Today what prevents me from it is the support in the first round in Emmanuel Macron “of this new political force.