Andréa Kotarac is the elected representative who will represent the National Rally in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes for the regions, the party announced on Wednesday.
The National Gathering has chosen the former rebellious past in its fold, Andréa Kotarac, to lead its list in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the party announced on Wednesday in a statement.
Andréa Kotarac, former regional adviser of La France insoumise and now co-host of the “localist movement” with the MEP of RN Hervé Juvin, had been the party’s candidate for the metropolis of Lyon.
With Andréa Kotarac, the former LR Jean-Paul Garraud candidate in Occitanie and probably the former sarkozyste Thierry Mariani in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the RN is playing the card of openness to candidates who have not their party card.
Given second according to a survey
He was chosen to the detriment of another lesser-known candidate, Alexis Jolly, close to the deputy Bruno Bilde and delegate of the RN in Isère, who had replaced in July a close friend of Marion Maréchal, Thibaut Monnier.
It is another close to the niece of Marine Le Pen, Antoine Mellies, who had introduced Andréa Kotarac to the boss of the RN.
Andréa Kotarac should face the outgoing president of the region, Laurent Wauquiez (LR), given the winner by a poll in the fall, but who has still not formalized his candidacy. Andréa Kotarac, 32, was given second at 20% of voting intentions behind Laurent Wauquiez (31%) according to an Ifop poll carried out at the end of November.
Bruno Bonnell, deputy for the constituency of Villeurbanne, near Lyon, will be the head of the list for LREM. Environmentalists have invested the Haute-Savoie Fabienne Grébert. The PS could invest the former minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
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