Eric Ciotti was LCI’s political guest this Thursday morning. He hammered home that only LR candidate Valérie Pécresse might beat Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election.
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This is the sentence that should be remembered from the interview with the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes and president of the national commission of investiture Eric Ciotti on LCI this Thursday morning. Faced with Elisabeth Martichoux, the unsuccessful candidate for the LR primary explained that you “must have the courage to make a strong break” and that Valerie Pécresse embodied that, she who is “a woman of authority”.
The deputy Eric Ciotti also returned to the notable differences that there may be between his political thought and that ofEric Zemmour , a comparison for which he is often reproached. On this aspect, Éric Ciotti replied that the “LR program is made for France” and that “unlike Éric Zemmour, we have a responsibility project”. However, he said he thought the Reconquest candidate “is part of the democratic debate”, unlike some political figures like Sandrine Rousseau who “rejected” his candidacy because of his various convictions. For Valérie Pécresse’s right-hand man, it is not Éric Zemmour who poses a problem, but certain people around him: “There is no suitable response in Zemmour’s program. Around him, there are dangerous people like Damien Rieu who spread fanciful themes with a lot of disinformation.
For Eric Ciotti, Emmanuel Macron makes an “unbearable mix of genres”
What regarding Emmanuel Macron’s balance sheet and France’s place in the European Union? “Sixteen EU countries are asking for walls. Macron opposes it. With the exception of crossing points, the borders must be closed” analyzes Éric Ciotti, adding in passing: “it has been a five-year term for nothing… we are breaking all migration records”. Very critical of the President of the Republic, the deputy expressed his weariness with his non-official campaign declaration. For him, as was denounced last Tuesday by Bruno Retailleau on France Inter, Emmanuel Macron campaigns by moving to strategic cities, like Tourcoing (fiefdom of Gérald Darmanin), where “his speech was a speech of campaign but with the means of the State”. Éric Ciotti also pointed to his trip to Nice where the outgoing president “laid the first stone of a police station whose work will only begin in two years”, ending his remarks, acerbic: “there is a mixture of genres which is unbearable”.