Christian Jacob, the President of LR, insisted on Sunday night, on the differences between his party and the outgoing majority, when other figures of the movement called on the contrary to “reach the hand” to the President of the Republic.
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The members of the Strategic Committee of the Republicans (LR) are barely sitting in the Council Room, Rue de Vaugirard in Paris, this Sunday, April 24 at night, that the fire alarm sounds. Deafening, the noise triggered by a simple grilled bulb is accompanied by a message that turns in a loop: “Please evacuate the building immediately.” Like an allegory of the dangerous situation of the right formation on this evening second ballot. presidential.
Until then, they had managed to hold the shock. To survive, preserve his seats in the National Assembly and save as much as possible the little furniture that remained, the party has fallen, between the two towers of the presidential election, to put the dust under the carpet. No voting instructions or opinions decided on behalf of the community, everyone was referred to his personal responsibility and, above all, to his local equation. But Sunday this position was no longer tantable. With the re-election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of the Republic, the right must face everything that divides it.
Towed until then by the uncertainty of the result, many executives who, from today, have no reason to hide their willingness to seize the president’s stretched hand and to join his majority . A presidential camp that may claim to have recovered 53% of Valerie Pécresse voters, compared to 18% for Marine Le Pen. Conversely, those who wish to keep an intact LR house in the opposition will have to scrap against defections.
“Reach your hand, gather and open”
Invited on the Plateau de France 2, Sunday evening, Christian Jacob, the President of LR, wanted to mark as much as possible the differences between the training he directs and the outgoing majority: “the battle of the legislative elections S ‘Open today. Unlike the presidential majority, we have elected officials who have anchor, who know their territories. It’s a new campaign that begins, “he said. And blame Emmanuel Macron for the rise of extremes in the country: “There has never been such a level of votes of despair. This is the result of Emmanuel Macron’s action for five years.”
From the words as a reminder to the members who could be tempted by the macronistic adventure, but also a message to the right voters disoriented by the differences in positions within the party.
because at the same time, bloomed on social networks the messages calling for a gathering around the President of the Republic. A few minutes after the announcement of the second round results, Christelle Morançais, president of the region Pays de la Loire and spokesman of Valérie Pécresse’s campaign, went from his communiqué: “I am a woman on the right, I am Attached to my convictions, but I consider that, in the extremely tense context in which we live, you have to know how to reach out, gather and open. “Nothing would be, according to her,” worse than the ideological blindness, denial of realities or taste of revenge … “
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