2024-01-11 21:48:46
Rachida Dati is no longer a member of LR. The president of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, came to the decision and announced, this Thursday, January 11, the exclusion of the former Minister of Justice from the party after her appointment as Minister of Culture, considering that she had thus “placed herself outside our political family. “We are in the opposition, so we draw the consequences of his choice with regret,” Eric Ciotti said in a statement.
Rachida Dati has chosen to join the Government.
She places herself outside our political family.
She is no longer part of the Republicans.
We are in the opposition, so we draw the consequences of his choice with regret.
— Eric Ciotti (@ECiotti) January 11, 2024
The former Minister of Justice held until now the position of president of the National Council of Republicans.
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Rachida Dati herself announced her appointment on rue de Valois to Parisian LR elected officials, a few minutes before the official announcement from the Elysée. With this surprise arrival, Rachida Dati, indicted in particular for “corruption”, will join the government of Gabriel Attal, who himself has not hidden his appetite for the town hall of the capital. Questioned Thursday evening at 8 p.m. on TF1 about the legal troubles of his new minister, Gabriel Attal invoked his “presumption of innocence” and praised a “woman of commitment”.
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????️”She is a woman who leaves no one indifferent, because she is a woman of commitment and energy”, explains @GabrielAttal. Concerning his indictment, the Prime Minister recalls the presumption of innocence. pic.twitter.com/ofDgCGvIwD— TF1Info (@TF1Info) January 11, 2024
“I wish good luck to those involved in the world of culture given the ordeals they will go through,” immediately reacted the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo with whom the mayor of the 7th arrondissement has a stormy relationship. Rachida Dati thus turns her back on the Republicans, a party defeated in the last presidential election with less than 5% of the vote.
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