Renaissance withdraws its assist for the outgoing LR mayor of Montluçon | EUROtoday

In Montluçon (Allier), lower than ten days earlier than the primary spherical of municipal elections, nothing is ready in stone, not even the logos on marketing campaign posters. The outgoing mayor, Frédéric Laporte, in workplace since 2017 and Les Républicains candidate for re-election, had the particularity of being supported on the identical time by Renaissance, Horizons… and Reconquête!, Eric Zemmour’s occasion. An enormous hole which lastly collapsed: Renaissance withdrew its assist on Friday March 3.

Reconquest! had, actually, displayed “his unreserved support” to Frédéric Laporte. “This is not a simple call for a vote, we want to have elected officials in the Allier department”defined the departmental delegate Jean-Antoine Rosati. No settlement would have been signed, nor positions claimed, however the consultant of the far-right occasion justified: “Frédéric Laporte’s program meets our values ​​in three points : security, with the plan to increase the means; health, with the promotion of public hospitals, and the economy serving the population through a reduction in taxes. »

Eric Zemmour’s party is already represented within the municipal majority by Pierre Laroche, elected in 2014 and current deputy mayor, responsible for security and the living environment, attached to Reconquête! since 2022, currently in fifth position on the outgoing mayor’s list. “Other candidates positioned further down the list are also members of our movement”says Franck Picard, native supervisor of Reconquête!, which Jean-Antoine Rosati confirms.

“No agreement or link with the extremes”

Frédéric Laporte, who tries to accommodate all his supporters, argues with the World that he “rejects any program agreement” with the intense proper. The departmental delegate of the Macronist occasion, Jean-François Jarrige, who obtained 4.27% within the 2020 municipal elections earlier than turning into eleventh on his opponent’s listing, justifies: “The settlement solely considerations the connection with the mayor however not with Reconquest!. »

You have 56.37% of this text left to learn. The relaxation is reserved for subscribers.