“The 2022 macron is no longer that of 2017” and the experience gained by the President of the Republic constitutes “an asset”, judges the resident of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
Le Monde with AFP
It was expected, it’s now confirmed. The President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region (PACA) Renaud Muselier, who left the party the Republicans in November 2021 by reproaching his drift towards the far right, will support Emmanuel Macron to the presidential election, – he announced Saturday, February 26 in an interview at the Sunday newspaper (JDD)
“Nobody, among the declared candidates, is at the level of this election”, can we read in the interview, reproaching in particular to the candidate of the Republicans Valérie Pécresse his “Great Standing Difference” vis-à-vis From the extreme right. “That’s why I will support and vote for Emmanuel Macron, after mature reflection and without hesitation,” said Renaud Muselier, even though the President of the Republic is still not officially candidate.
re-elected in June 2021 with more than 57% of the votes at the head of a region of five million inhabitants at the end of June against the national rally candidate (RN) Thierry Mariani, Renaud Muselier left the Republicans a few months more late, denouncing a “political drift” of the party towards the far right, incarnated according to him by Eric Ciotti, become a councilor “authority” of Valérie Pécresse.
“What I’m first reproaching to Republicans, These are the ambiguities of their strategy “
“I will never support a candidate who does not clearly commit to calling to braid at the far right in case of absence in the second round,” he warned the daily Le Parisien in early February.
“What I’m first reproaching to the Republicans, it is the ambiguities of their strategy,” he says to the JDD, judging that, like the Socialist Anne Hidalgo, Valérie Pécresse is “in the denial of his situation Politics “and that his candidacy will” endorse the death of Republicans “. “OUTREVENT RIGHT IS A POLITICAL FAULT”, According to him, but also a “moral fault”.
“talk about” great replacement “or” French paper “does not correspond to the values of the French right to which I want to remain faithful: that of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy,” says Renaud Muserier, who specifies Do not ask for “title or place in the presidential campaign.
” Renaud Muselier is already left “
“The 2022 macron is no longer that of 2017” and the experience gained by the President of the Republic constitutes “an asset”, still judges the former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, considering also that ” Nobody could have prevented the Russian attack “against Ukraine but” France founded a voice in the concert of nations “.
“Renaud Muselier is already gone,” Prophetised Valérie Pécresse, Wednesday night on BFM-TV. “For me, Renaud Muserier is already an objective ally of Emmanuel Macron. I would be very surprised that he calls to support my candidacy. In any case, for the moment, he did not do anything,” she said Still.
At the time when several presidential candidates are struggling to collect the 500 sponsorships of elected officials by March 4, Renaud Muselier said he wrote to all the mayors of his region ” To ask them to sponsor a candidate, whatever he is, if he is credited with more than 10% voting intentions. ” “Whether Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Marine Le Pen or Eric Zemmour, I do not share their ideas, but their absence would be a denial of democracy,” he supported.