“I am neither sold nor rallied”, annoys Christelle Morançais (LR), quoted as minister

Since her statement, on the evening of the second round of the presidential election, calling for support for Emmanuel Macron and to help him “unite the country”, the LR president of the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council has not been spared. critics from the Republican camp. Critics which have dissipated all the less since Christelle Morançais has since been regularly cited in the press as a potential minister, or even Prime Minister, of the future Macronist government. The elected 47-year-old therefore decided this Thursday to publish an update on social networks.

“My name is currently circulating. I am given strategies, ambitions. They lend me secret visits to the Elysée. All of this makes me deeply uncomfortable. Maybe because I find myself embroiled in this story unwittingly. Perhaps because this little merry-go-round is everything I hate in politics”, protests the one who became president of the Pays-de-la-Loire region in December 2015 following the withdrawal of Bruno Retailleau (LR) , affected by the ban on combining mandates, before being re-elected in his name in June 2021.

“I feel a sense of urgency, the feeling that the game is coming to an end, that we have to pull ourselves together quickly, that we have to listen seriously to the French, that we put quickly put an end to all this circus which, from left to right via the “at the same time”, shows the most heartbreaking face of politics, ”she adds.

“I don’t need any place, any position”

Very critical of the Republicans whom she accuses of acting “as if nothing had happened” after Valérie Pécresse’s 4.7% in the first round, Christelle Morançais continues with reference to Emmanuel Macron. “My camp or what’s left of it calls me sold out. The president’s camp considers me as rallied. But I am no more sold than rallied. I love my country, I want it to get out of it. I will always be on the side of courage, on the side of will, on the side of reason. And if Emmanuel Macron is on the side of courage, will and reason, then I will support him without hesitation! »

In conclusion of her press release, the former business manager affirms that she has no ambition other than to serve the Pays-de-la-Loire region. “I don’t need any place, any position, any title. I already have everything I need: my mandate as regional president, a mandate that I love and that allows me to act and do, in my place, as best as I can to to change things. »