Deputy Aurélien Pradié, stripped of his post as vice-president of the Republicans (LR), expressed his fear on Tuesday that the right would become “little by little complicit” with the government and promised to start “a collective path” to reconnect his party. to the French.
“Me, I am not an accomplice of the government and I also think that there is a danger that our political family will become a conciliatory accomplice of the government little by little”, warned Mr. Pradié on France Inter.
“We are at a time when the right has to choose whether it wants to speak to the people again or whether it wants to abandon it, whether we want to speak to France which works hard again or whether we want to abandon it, whether we want to become macronists bis or if we want to trace our own path”.
Returning to his ousting from the post of number 2 of LR ten days ago for his opposition to the pension reform if it did not take into account long careers, Mr. Pradié “regretted” this decision by LR boss Eric Ciotti , claiming not to have understood it.
“I think that firing someone who says something that bothers you is not proof of rallying,” he lamented, promising however to remain loyal to his political family and thus ruling out a departure from the party. .
“I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror”, added the deputy, convinced that it “is always better to pay the price of courage and freedom than to pay that of compromise”.
“I may have lost a job, but I may also have gained a little respect”, he underlined, assuring that his dismissal was for him the “beginning of a path which does not is not individual, but collective. I know that I have time, it is an advantage”.
According to the deputy, the question for the right now consists of “making sure” that it is “connected to the French people and to their real life”, regretting that it has not been so “for years”.
02/28/2023 10:15:05 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP