The National Assembly has made public the financial affiliation of the deputies, with each elected official bringing nearly €40,000 to the party to which they are affiliated. According to calculations, eleven deputies did not affiliate with the party one might have expected.
Among them, Lionnel Luca, a member of the Popular Right and UMP deputy, who chose to financially affiliate not with his party but with Debout la République of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
A member of the Popular Right, the deputy lamented “the too soft policy” of his party (the UMP), noting, “We are not implementing the right-wing policies for which we were elected; we are too soft.”
Lionnel Luca had participated in the creation of Debout la République, a Gaullist think tank before it became a party.
The party, through its local representative Anthony Mitrano, wanted to express:
“I salute the courageous and conviction-driven decision of Alpes-Maritimes deputy Lionnel Luca to affiliate as a parliamentarian with Debout la République, the patriotic movement chaired by deputy mayor and former presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
I thus thank Lionnel Luca on behalf of all DLR 06 activists, whose numbers continue to rise since the UMP is tearing itself apart and ridiculing politics in the eyes of the French.”
