Excluded from the Republicans the day before, Éric Ciotti arrived on Thursday shortly after 10 a.m. at the headquarters of his party, of which he still calls himself president, and announced that he had taken legal action against his ouster voted the day before by all LR executives .
“I’m president of the party, I’m going to my office, that’s all,” Eric Ciotti told journalists present upon his arrival. Denouncing the “coup de force” of his internal opponents, he announced that “the Paris judicial court has been seized by summary proceedings to contest the validity of this decision which makes no sense”. He had said earlier in the morning his intention to go to LR headquarters. He then posted a video of himself in his office, with music intended to be dramatic.
Refuting any force after his unanimous exclusion from the party’s political bureau, he denounced “the coup of force” of “those who do not respect the statutes”. “There was no political office yesterday,” he added, only “a meeting of people who met themselves outside of any framework.”
Éric Ciotti and Jordan Bardella, head of the National Rally, are to have lunch together today, two days after the first advocated an alliance with the second for the legislative elections, we learned from their entourage.
Determined to remain in his post, he announced that “the Paris judicial court has been seized by summary proceedings to contest the validity of this decision which makes no sense.” On site, a source within the party indicated that Mr. Ciotti had a bailiff note who among the 50 employees was still obeying his orders, and specified that the wifi had been cut off before the arrival of the deposed president.
For its part, the party announced via a press release that it would convene a new political bureau to “validate the exclusion of Ciotti”.
The greatest confusion reigns in the party. Thus the official account on None of the decisions taken at this meeting have any legal consequences. It may have criminal consequences.”
According to BFMTV, this is because Ciotti would have been deprived of the access code to X, but the latter’s team would have kept that of Facebook.
