Do you know the common point between Iric Ciotti and Edith Piaf? It may seem curious, but there is one! No, nothing … The former president of the Republicans regrets something … and certainly not his alliance with Marine Le Pen during the legislative elections last July, a consequence of the dissolution. It is also the title of this emblematic song of the same that he chose for a book of confidences published this week, and in which he returns to what marked an earthquake to the right.
This alliance, at least we have the feeling, threw it. We also feel it when you have been exchanging with him for almost a year. Éric Ciotti is good in his sneakers and one wonders why he did not cross the Rubicon before. Perhaps he was still sensitive to what he describes as “politically correct.”
“The left can ally with everyone, even with the devil, but the right, no, was prohibited, and in the end we don’t even know why,” he writes.
In his viewfinder, the strategy implemented, according to him, by François Mitterrand in the 1980s of a sanitary cord with the right end with the sole purpose of maintaining the left in power.
Early Rapprowment with the RN
A year after taking the step, the former UMP deputy is completely assumed this alliance with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Its strategic analysis is very clear, but it sounds like a terrible admission of failure for Republican law, which in any case became a simple RN alert.
“The law cannot win without an alliance with the national rally. The rest is a fable. The rest is to deceive the voters on the right,” judges the former president of the Republicans.
We also discovered behind the scene of this alliance with the RN, much older than one could believe … the discussions took place in 2022, then on the occasion of the Asylum and Immigration Law in the winter of 2023. He already trusts, Éric Ciotti evokes with Marine Le Pen a Motion Commonshipship Motion then a possible electoral agreement, without saying that he says about the old cooks.
And then everything accelerates on the night of the European elections last summer after the thunder of dissolution. SMS again exchanged, before a meeting and an agreement they met quickly.
Praise in Marine Le Pen
In terms of praise, it does not do so in half measures. The zeal of the new converts? Marine Le Pen describes there as a “state woman”, “patriot”, “formidable strategist that includes the French.” The same goes for the president of the RN Jordan Bardella: “Someone with a rare potential (…) a formidable debate (…) an instinctive speaker.”
Now in the intimacy of the Le Pen-Bardella political couple, he also has a leading observer: “What surprises me at home is his loyalty. Complete and complete loyalty to Marine Le Pen.”
Their former friends of Republicans evoke them well, but scratch them or to “break them down” as they say familiar in politics. He says he is “disappointed” with the five -year term by Nicolas Sarkozy. But it is with Laurent Wauquiez that he is the most scathing, someone who describes as not frankly brave:
“At every decisive moment, he fell (…) his trip is a disaster, the presidency of his LR was a failure. Everything is there: Laurent Wauquiez began without assuming.
Today, Éric Ciotti has founded a new party, the UDR, the Union of Laws for the Republic. Thanks to its alliance with the RN, it is at the head of a group of sixteen deputies in the National Assembly.
Individual, he hopes that this agreement with Marine Le Pen will allow him next year to conquer the City of Nice in front of his great rival, if not his enemy, the outgoing mayor Christian Estrosi.
Source: BFM TV
