The blocking of refineries in the Marseille region – which Renaud Muselier describes as “CGT bullshit” – almost spoiled the party dreamed of by the president (various right, DVD) of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. But Cap sur l’Avenir-Our territories first, the party “100% regional” imagined by the elected Marseille, took off well public Friday, October 14 in a theater of 8e district of Marseilles. A meeting which brought together nearly 400 people, during which the former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 63, who left Les Républicains (LR) in November 2021, in a jacket, jeans and sneakers, defined the contours of its movement.
According to its figures, its new formation already brings together 1,900 members, including 122 mayors and five presidents of departmental councils out of the six in the PACA region. By videoconference, the mayors of Nice and Toulon, Christian Estrosi and Hubert Falco, due to a shortage of gasoline, and the president of the Aix-Marseille Provence metropolis, Martine Vassal, all former LRs, gave their support to “their friend Renaud”. Heading for the future is “a movement more than a party”assures Mr. Muselier, “a rally without national aims, open to all reasonable elected officials, from environmentalists to the Gaullist right through the center”. A political arc from which he excludes what he calls ” the extremes “understand the Nupes and the National Rally (RN): “These, we fight them. The others, we’ll get along. »
Deprived of a national forum
The doctor by training affirms that it is the conditions of his re-election to the regional elections of 2021, facing the candidate RN Thierry Mariani, who pushed him to create this structure. “By bringing together eleven different political sensitivities, I won “, he hammers. At the time, his desire to unite with the presidential majority had fractured LR.
Friday evening, in Marseille, representatives of Horizon, Renaissance, MoDem, Ecology at the Center but also elected LRs such as the president of Vaucluse Dominique Santoni, crowded into the room. “Given the disrepair of parties at the national level, there needs to be a peaceful space in the region », affirms Mr. Muselier, who also sees in his initiative a “act of decentralization that does not require great laws ». “United against the government, we can achieve more”, he assures, recalling that, “despite good relations, it is not normal that such a vast region is not represented among the ministers of Elisabeth Borne”.
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