The leader of France’s mainstream conservatives was booted out of the party after enraging colleagues with his call for an electoral pact with the far-right party of Marine Le Pen.
Eric Ciotti was stripped of his membership of the centre-right Les Républicains by the party’s executive committee on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the power struggle gripping LR took a farcical turn when Ciotti shuttered party headquarters in what his opponents said was an attempt to thwart his removal.
Ciotti said he had locked the Paris building for security reasons following “threats received and disorder” on Tuesday.
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