While he has supported Emmanuel Macron since the presidential election, the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, former member of the Republicans, announced that he was going to cross the course of the Adhesion to the party “In early December”.
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One more step to signify his change of camp. The president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region (PACA), Renaud Muselier, former member of the Republicans, will join the presidential party, Renaissance, “in early December”, he told the Agency France -Press Tuesday, November 29, confirming information from Provence and Var-Matin. Mr. Muselier said he will integrate the majority party executive office.
The support of the local elected official to the President of the Republic is not new. As of February, Renaud Muselier called to vote for Emmanuel Macron during the presidential election, after leaving the Republicans (LR) in November 2021, reproaching his political family a drift to the extreme right.
“I had given myself time to make a decision by the end of the year on a national positioning,” the regional president said on Tuesday, assuring that he does not find himself in the words From the three candidates “to the presidency of the right party.
” The word “traitor” has a new synonym “, tweete Eric Ciotti
In October, Renaud Muselier had denounced “a race to the far right” of his former party and openly criticized the candidate Eric Ciotti to the president of the party, arguing that the latter had established a “political system of pressure and threats “in the Alpes-Maritimes.
In response to Mr. Muselier’s decision, the deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes therefore tweeted Tuesday: “The word” traitor “has a new synonym: Muselier. Dictionaries will integrate it very soon. Despiteable and ridiculous …”.
Renaud Muselier had won the presidency of the PACA region in June 2021 by largely defeating the candidate of the National Rally, Thierry Mariani, himself a former member of LR. Following his departure from LR, a few months later, he had set two criteria for his choice of a future party: “No compromise with the extremes and no” presidential stable “”, supported those around him.
“I would not have returned to the” walkers “[the members of the Party La République en Marche, note] because I did not find myself there,” assured Mr. Muselier on Tuesday, but “Renaissance is another Political organization, which has integrated the result of the presidential election “.
no” national ambition “
The presidential party was renamed in May, a few days after the election of the Head of State, and had praised its “opening” to citizens and elected officials from other parties. On this occasion had also been created a confederation named together !, With the Modem, by François Bayrou, and the Horizons party, by Edouard Philippe, for the legislative elections. The change of name of the party was then formalized in September, during a Congress at the Carrousel du Louvre, where Mr. Muselier was present.
Within Renaissance, Renaud Muselier wishes to “consolidate [his] region” and “help the country to move forward”, but he maintains that he does not have “national ambition”. “I feel free and I will stay free,” he added.
He had also launched in July a regional party named “CAP on the future-nos territories first”, calling for the gathering of all “the Democrat and Republican Arc” after the legislative elections, during which the Far right has won half the constituencies in this region in the south of France. This party “continues to exist”, ensures those around him.