Both the right and the left marked their amazement after the rapprochement, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, between a deputy from the National Rally and the mayor, classified as various right, of Marignane. The two elected officials spoke in the hope of “reviving” the former major Gaullist RPR party.
Franck Allisio, RN deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône and himself ex-LR, and Éric Le Dissès, various right-wing mayor of Marignane and vice-president of the department and the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, announced Friday evening in a press release “the (re)foundation of the RPR as a movement of elected officials and citizens wishing […] to rebuild France, turn the page on macronism and block the far left Nupes”.
Mr. Allisio, departmental delegate of the National Rally, assures that he “obviously remains a convinced marinist and an elected official of the RN” and that “Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella are informed of their approach, which they watch with benevolence”. The two elected officials believe in their press release that “their initiative is intended to be rolled out everywhere in France, in each territory”.
Éric Ciotti, president of the Les Républicains (LR) party, a distant descendant of the RPR (1976-2002) created by Jacques Chirac, was indignant at this announcement on Twitter, repeating that he refuses any idea of ??”a union of the rights” at party level. “The RN wants to own the RPR brand. Rather than working on ideas, they prefer to fall into petty political calculations. This is what differentiates a government party from a slogan party. We won’t let it happen! »
The local left, for its part, denounced this rapprochement and challenged the heads of local executives. “This ideological convergence demonstrates that the dikes are clearly giving way,” said PCF departmental secretary Jérémy Bacchi in a statement, calling Martine Vassal, LR president of the department and of the metropolis, who had supported Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election. , to relieve Mr. Le Dissès of his responsibilities in these bodies.
Le Printemps marseillais, a coalition of left-wing and environmentalist parties and collectives which won the town hall of Marseille in June 2020, made the same request in a press release, denouncing “a worrying, opportunistic and dangerous turn of the local right”. Both asked Ms. Vassal and the president of the Paca region, ex-LR Renaud Muselier, now in the Renaissance party, to “take their responsibilities”.
Mr. Muselier, who counts among his majority an assistant to Mr. Le Dissès at the town hall of Marignane, assured that the elected official had “immediately dissociated herself from this alliance initiative”. The president of the region denounced on Twitter an “unworthy association” and “a sham of unnatural political alliances”.
