This Friday, the Paris Court suspended the expulsion of Éric Ciotti from the conservative Republicans (LR), so he continues as president of this formation, thus rendering the two orders of the party’s executive committee null and void. Ciotti had been subject to this expulsion due to his plan to forge an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right for the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 in France.

The Republican party announced this Wednesday that Eric Ciotti had been 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. The vote was adopted “unanimously” by the members of the LR executive, the political current heir to former presidents Charles de Gaulle, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sakozy.

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 of June 30 and July 7, which were communicated last Sunday by the president of France, Emmanuel Macron. , after the results of the European elections in the country were announced. A gesture that ‘de facto’ would involve breaking the cordon sanitaire that has always marked relations with the extreme right.

The conservative formation is going through a moment of tension that led to senior members of the party calling an extraordinary meeting this Wednesday in which, according to French media, a new direction led by the current general secretary, Annie Genevard,yeahhe top of the list to the Europeans, François-Xavier Bellamy, as interim leaders.

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