Christian Jacob leaves presidency of Republicans

As the party’s statutes provide, it will be replaced by the delegated vice-president, Annie Genevard, who will take office from Monday.

Le Monde with AFP

The president of the Republicans (LR), Christian Jacob, who announced his intention to leave his duties in early July, left the party on Friday, learned the France-Presse agency, Thursday, June 30. As provided for in the statutes of the right party, it will be replaced by the delegated vice-president, Annie Genevard, who will take office from Monday.

Arrived in October 2019 at the head of LR, Mr. Jacob, 62, also abandoned his seat as deputy to the last legislative elections. He remains alternately alternate of his successor, Isabelle Périgault.

m. Jacob, who celebrated his departure at LR headquarters on Thursday, is to leave in July in London, where he will take English lessons, said the party.

other movements within the party

Former mayor of Provins, he had been elected for the first time in 1995 in the 4 e district of Seine-et-Marne, with an interruption between 2002 and 2007, when he was become minister. This Chiraquian presided for almost nine years the UMP group and then LR in the National Assembly, from 2010 to 2019, when he had taken the head of the party.

Elected after Laurent Wauquiez’s resignation a few months after LR’s heavy defeat to the Europeans (8.5 %), he then said that he would not be a candidate for the presidential election.

Other movements are to be expected within the party. The current director of communication, Cécile Richez, will become general manager from September. She succeeds Jean-François Verdier, who will join his administration.

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