Already very seriously shaken after the alliance between President Eric Ciotti and the National Rally, the Les Républicains ship rocked again this Wednesday morning. The outgoing deputy for Lot, candidate for re-election, Aurélien Pradié announces that he is leaving the party with a group of relatives.
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He considers the Les Républicains party to be dead, no longer able to speak to the French. But if Aurélien Pradié lets go of LR for good, it is not to join the ranks of Emmanuel Macron in the future National Assembly. He says he wants to become a deputy at the origin of something new and takes with him thirty candidates who have been nominated by the Republicans.
Aurélien Pradié assures that they will compete on Sunday under the colors of his micro-party “Du Courage”.
The departure of Aurélien Pradié will not really surprise because he has always been a dissonant voice at LR. We remember that he was notably opposed to pension reform last year against the advice of his group at the assembly. It had him cost his place as number 2 in the party.
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The biggest surprise of this announcement lies above all in the timing, point Raphaël Delvolve from the political service: we are four days from the first round and in a very complicated period for LR after the alliance sealed by Eric Ciotti with the RN. A political-legal psychodrama from which we cannot see the end. This Wednesday afternoon, the opponents of the still president of the party are trying for the third time to dismiss him…
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