The French right is not willing to make an agreement with Le Pen. The Republican party has announced that Eric Ciotti will be removed from his position as leader after reaching out to the National Group, a far-right party led by Marine Le Pen, ahead of the next legislative elections. A unanimous decision by the formation and

Eric Ciotti had been in the spotlight since this Monday when he unilaterally announced his intention to agree with Marine Le Pen in the future elections announced last Sunday by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, after the results of the elections were announced. Europeans in the country. ORA gesture that ‘de facto’ would imply breaking the cordon sanitaire that has always marked relations with the extreme right.

The conservative formation is going through a moment of tension that has led to the senior members of the party calling an exceptional and extraordinary meeting in which, according to French media, a new leadership has emerged with the person who until now was the general secretary, Annie Genevard, yehe top of the list to the Europeans, François-Xavier Bellamy, as interim leaders.

As expected, Ciotti was quick to react through his X account, in which he defended that “the meeting organized this afternoon was carried out in flagrant violation of our statutes.” Not only that, but he has assured that any type of decision that has been made within those margins has no legal consequences and can “have criminal consequences.”

Finally, he has argued that he is still the president of Los Republicanos and that the decision of his colleagues has no effect on his current position: “I am and continue to be the president of our political party, elected by the members!”