“If I were a deputy, I would have voted in favor”: Florencia Portelli, vice president of LR, in favor of censorship

Republicans remain very divided. Although Laurent Wauquiez, head of the LR deputies, gave instructions not to vote on the motions of censure studied this Thursday, October 16, some rebels should vote in their favor.

Other political figures of the party who are not part of the parliamentarians have also made their voices heard, such as Florencia Portelli. The vice president of the Republicans announces on RTL that she would have voted in favor of censure if she had been a parliamentarian.

“If I were a deputy, I would have voted in favor. I believe that today we are presented with a socialist budget, and I am not a socialist. Our followers and voters expect us to have values ​​and assume our convictions,” she stated.

However, going against the grain of LR’s official position, he deplores “many” divisions within the party. “There is a division between the party (activists and federations) and parliamentarians who believe that the Lecornu product should be given a chance.”

Florencia Portelli calls for the resignation of the president

Like her, some LR members do not dare to accept the copy of the Lecornu II government. Bruno Retailleau, former Minister of the Interior re-elected during the first government of Sébastien Lecornu, denounced that he is a “hostage of the socialists” and believes that “the right cannot accept this budget.” Among the deputies, two or three parliamentarians could vote in favor of censure.

In general, Florencia Portelli believes that the situation is complicated and that “we are facing bad decisions.” “Either we censor because we do not agree with what is going to be proposed, which is more of my position, or we play with stability but at the same time we run the risk of diluting ourselves in Macronism and giving prominence to the extremes.”

Therefore, all Republicans do not agree on the strategy to adopt, which explains the internal divisions, particularly between the LRs who entered the government and those who want to exclude them, for example. For Florencia Portelli, the best solution remains “the resignation of the President of the Republic.” “I’ve been saying it for a year,” he insists.