Christelle Morançais, president of the Pays de la Loire region, has left Les Républicains

The president of the Pays de la Loire region, Christelle Morançais, announced that she was not “no longer a member of the Republicans”in a meeting posted Friday, September 2 by West France. “I have not been a member of the Les Républicains party since the day after the first round of the presidential election (April 10, 2022)”she clarified.

Contrary to what she had been able to imply in this interview, Christelle Morançais “not joining Horizons”the political party of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, later specified its communication service to Agence France-Presse.

Spokesperson for Valérie Pécresse during the presidential election, Christelle Morançais had welcomed with ” relief “ Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen, calling for ” to help “ President “to build the unity that France so badly needs”. “I did not understand that my party could put Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on an equal footing”she explained.

Claiming to be “left without animosity, without resentment”it nevertheless ensures that it retains “very good friends at Les Républicains”. “I am and I remain a right-wing, liberal, European, modern woman. I am free and I devote myself entirely to the Pays de la Loire region”says Ms. Morançais.

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Meteoric rise

Regarding the election to the presidency of LR (December 3 and 4), Christelle Morançais, close to the former regional president Bruno Retailleau, whom she succeeded in 2017, recalls that, when she spoke , the candidacy of the boss of senators LR “is not official”. “He would make a very good president of LR and he proves it at the head of the LR group in the Senate, just as he has shown it to the region”believes the elected.

First woman to preside over the Pays de la Loire region, Christelle Morançais, 47, has experienced a meteoric rise since her first unsuccessful candidacy for the 2014 municipal elections in Le Mans.

A member of the UMP in 2002, Christelle Morançais began campaigning in 2011 for the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy. Top of the list in the Sarthe at the 2015 regionals, she had become 2^e vice-president of Pays de la Loire after the victory of Vendéen Bruno Retailleau and was re-elected in June 2021.

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Correction on September 2 at 6:30 p.m.: addition of a precision of the communication service of Christelle Morançais, which indicates that she does not join the political party of Edouard Philippe, Horizons.

The World with AFP