Published on June 12, 2024 at 04:42.
“We need an alliance with the National Rally.” It was with these words that Eric Ciotti, president of the Republicans, united almost his entire party against him during the 1 p.m. news on TF1 on Tuesday. This hand extended towards the extreme right provoked the ire of the tenors of his training, especially since the Nice resident seems to have consulted only himself to make this decision. We knew the character well on the right with his political identity line and his permeability to the theory of the great replacement, among others, but this announcement succeeded in causing astonishment, and this in his own ranks above all.
The vast majority of big names in LR quickly dropped it, Gérard Larcher, Bruno Retailleau, Olivier Marleix, Laurent Wauquiez and even Valérie Pecresse writing in a column in the Figaro that “the position expressed by Éric Ciotti is a dead end, does not engage our political family and in no way represents the Republican line.” If the deputy is now alone in his own camp, abandoned even to his own collaborators – one of his colleagues comparing him, still in the Figaroto the “Führer [s’enfermant] with the morons in a bunker and [déplaçant] “fictitious divisions” – he has above all alienated the history of a party which does not associate itself with the brown clothes of the National Rally.
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