Senate elections: Senator LR from Paris Pierre Charon will lead his own list

2023-07-04 15:05:59

Can one be both outgoing and dissident? Senator LR from Paris, who sits in the Republican group and belongs to the senatorial majority, will be a candidate for his succession to the senatorial elections in September 2023, despite the fact that his party has decided not to invest him. “For the Senate, I will present to you an additional list of gathering and opening: Liberate Paris! “He says in a letter sent to all the elected officials of the capital, meeting this Tuesday in the Council of Paris.

This list is added to that which was validated by the national committee of investiture of the Republicans Tuesday morning, by secret ballot. The LRs opted (with 42 votes for and 13 against) for the list led by Catherine Dumas (senator from Paris) and Francis Szpiner (mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris).

“No legitimate and serious reason has been presented or supported to justify my absence in an eligible position on the list chosen by Les Républicains”, continues outgoing LR Senator Pierre Charon in this letter, of which Le Parisien obtained a copy.

Pierre Charon denounces “a coterie” to impose Francis Szpiner in his place

“However, it was simple, out of four outgoing, two did not represent themselves. Does the reappointment of senators who have not been unworthy no longer exist in our party? asks the faithful Sarkozyist, Pierre Charon, who does not understand that the Republicans do not support the outgoing elected officials.

“A coterie has been organized to impose in my place a candidate whose electoral exploits are more than questionable with five failures in the legislative elections and in particular in the constituency of Claude Goasguen held by the right since 1958: we no longer have any LR deputy in Paris ! ” castigates Pierre Charon by targeting, without naming him, the mayor of the 16th arrondissement, Francis Szpiner, in second position on the LR list for the senatorials.

Faced with the Republicans, Pierre Charon does not rule out expanding beyond the right. “Tomorrow we will have to come together to amplify the movement to reconquer Paris and I will take my full part in it”, very clearly mentions the outgoing senator, “everyone must decide independently and free themselves from guardianship”. Something to seriously animate the Parisian debate in the coming weeks.