French right-wing party leader Ciotti backs Le Pen alliance ahead of snap elections

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3. Wow - "shredded consensus" and "calling for his head" were right - Les Républicains vote out leader Eric Ciotti

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143255800

The Republicans' political committee had voted unanimously to oust Ciotti, MP Annie Genevard said, adding that the party "will present candidates to the French public with clarity and independence" at snap polls called by President Emmanuel Macron for June 30 and July 7.

"I am and remain the president" of the party, Ciotti retorted in a post on X, formerly Twitter, calling the committee's decision "a flagrant violation of our statutes" that was illegal and void.
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He closed the party headquarters near the National Assembly lower house for the day after the political committee called an emergency meeting, saying there had "never been any meeting planned at the HQ this afternoon".
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The politician from Nice in southeast France "was no longer president from the second he made this insane decision" to announce an alliance with the RN, senior lawmaker Aurelien Pradie had earlier told broadcaster France 2.