“The future of the Republican right will be written in opposition to Emmanuel Macron”, affirms François-Xavier Bellamy, who asks that a clear line be cut within the Republicans
“The future of the Republican right will be written in opposition to Emmanuel Macron”, said the MEP, François-Xavier Bellamy (LR), at the microphone of France Inter this morning. For him, the right is “a political family to be completely rebuilt so that it can regain the confidence of voters”, and whose political line is not found in the outgoing president.
On the failure of candidate LR Valérie Pécresse in the first round of the presidential election, reaching less than 5% of the votes cast, he noted:
We lost because obviously the right did not deserve the confidence of the French. By its confusions, by its ambiguities, by its contradictions, it has aroused the distance of its own electorate.
“But we also lost because Emmanuel Macron chose this strategy, from the first day of his mandate, which consisted in having only the National Rally as interlocutor. “continued the MEP.
However, he gave « raison » to Emmanuel Macron on the vagueness of the LR position. “What is our political family saying today to those who want to hear us? asked Mr. Bellamy, adding: “This is the big question that will emerge for us in the days and weeks to come. »
As for the temptations, lent or assumed, of certain elected officials and executives of the LR party to want to ally with LRM for the legislative elections and the next five-year term, as advocated by Nicolas Sarkozy, the elected official retorted: “ If some want to work with Emmanuel Macron, they have every right, it’s called democracy, but there’s a party for that, it’s called La République en Marche. »
“I do not see what there is to build with someone who has destroyed so much, and to claim to be constructive today to conceal a tactical reversal or an immediate opportunist”, he snapped.