The call for dissent within the regional majority launched by Thierry Mariani after Renaud Muselier’s resignation from his party Les Républicains did not last long.
Although the person concerned has remained tactically silent, it was his “centurion” Jean-Paul Leonelli, head of the Notre Région d’Abord group, who took charge … “Once again Thierry Mariani is behind the times; I invite him to read my statement and confirm to him that more than ever the 83 elected members of the majority are united and supportive around Renaud Muselier.”
In a lengthy text, from which we can extract the essentials—referring to the regional election won by Renaud Muselier—Jean-Paul Leonelli writes: “We achieved victory together, strong in our 11 political sensibilities, facing the RN and those who, within the Republicans, deliberately discredited us in the hope of bartering an alliance with the far-right and selling their soul for a hypothetical ministerial post.”
