France’s main right-wing party, the Republicans, decided this Wednesday to sack its president Eric Ciotti for proposing an unprecedented alliance with the far right in early legislative elections to be held on June 30 and July 7.
Ciotti’s proposal for an alliance with the National Union (RN, its French acronym), which is currently led by Jordan Bardella but includes Marine Le Pen, triggered an internal crisis in the party on Tuesday.
Ciotti was today “unanimously” expelled from the executive committee of the Republican Party (LR), the political movement heir to General Charles de Gaulle and several other presidents of the French Republic, such as Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, the party said. statement.
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