Les Républicains: 'Very right-wing party' whose platform is 'very close to that of the far-right RN'

The leader of France's traditional right-wing party on Tuesday backed an alliance with the far right of Marine Le Pen in snap legislative elections, triggering a crisis within his own party and fury from the government. The stunning announcement by the Republicans (LR) leader Eric Ciotti in a television interview is the first time in modern French political history that a leader of a traditional party has backed an alliance with the far-right National Rally (RN). For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the French conservative party leader's highly controversial move to establish an alliance with the far right for the snap polls, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza is joined by fellow reporter Clovis Casali and guest analyst Samuel Hayat, French Political Scientist and CNRS Research Fellow at CEVIPOF-Sciences Po.


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