Between Nice and Haute-Savoie, LR jostled by Eric Ciotti’s UDR | EUROtoday

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Bruno Retailleau, president of the Les Républicains (LR) party, at the party headquarters in Paris, January 7, 2026.

At Les Républicains (LR), we tackle the crises one after the opposite. The president of the occasion, Bruno Retailleau, now not actually is aware of the place to begin bailing out the boat. Monday February 2, with the top of the debates, the appropriate nonetheless thought it was lastly turning the web page on the finances, a mirror of its contradictions between a celebration chief describing it as “socialist” and deputies who refuse to censor it. To this lengthy and unhealthy streak have been added, since Sunday, a partial legislative vote misplaced in Haute-Savoie and the help of Christophe Gomart (LR MEP) for the ally of the National Rally (RN), Eric Ciotti, who’s operating for mayor of Nice for the March elections.

Two days after the defeat in Haute-Savoie, it’s time to demand accountability. But particularly heads after the failure of Christophe Fournier towards Antoine Valentin, candidate for Eric Ciotti’s occasion, the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR), with the help of the RN. A painful setback on this stronghold held by the appropriate since 1958. Member of Parliament for the neighboring constituency, Virginie Duby-Muller asks “a rapid clarification and exclusion of Martial Saddier”. She accuses the president of the LR federation of Haute-Savoie and president of the division “persistent ambiguity”. The normal secretary of the federation refers back to the latter’s help for Antoine Valentin through the legislative elections of July 2024 towards the outgoing LR deputy, Christelle Petex.

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