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Samir TOUNSI (AFP) PARIS - In the midst of controversy over ministerial travel in North Africa, the planned trip of UMP deputies in Ivory Coast, stopped at the last moment after the intervention Elysee, aroused Tuesday mainly discomfort and sarcasm, including within the UMP.
The boss of UMP deputies, Christian Jacob, confirmed Tuesday he had not considered "appropriate" that members of his group - Yves Censi, Cecile Dumoulin, Jean-Francois Mancel - travel to Abidjan on weekend last weekend (from Paris Friday February 4, return Monday). On site, the three MPs were to meet UMP incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, but not his rival Alassane Ouattara, President yet recognized by the international community.
"I explained myself with them because there was a clear risk of exploitation of their movement," said Christian Jacob in the press. 
"I got a call from a counselor at the Elysee who asked me if I was aware of this movement, which was not the case. I informed the parliamentarians who agreed to surrender their travel, "he said. Yves Censi confirmed an invitation from the President of the Ivorian National Assembly. He and his colleagues say they have given up when their trip was announced by the services of Laurent Gbagbo.
"There was one condition: to meet a balanced way all parties on the side of Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara," stated Yves Censi.
MPP UMP Paris, Bernard Debre said he was "flabbergasted": "What they were doing there?", Mocking his colleagues on potentially "invested with a divine mission to tell Lawrence Gbagbo need to resign. "
"Fortunately they did not go because the ridiculous does not kill, it's true, but it's still hard sometimes, "said Bernard Debre.
" The Assembly is not an agency trip. Be careful where you go, "added Chantal Brunel (UMP).
" Every week I am invited to go to Côte d'Ivoire. I've never been there, because it is a domestic political problem is being resolved normally, "added Didier Julia (UMP), who also hit the headlines for his expeditions - controversy - in Iraq in 2004, when there were withheld from French hostages. "We have other fish to fry right now with the problems of Tunisia and Egypt," he added, t_il.
"There are explorers in all environments, even in politics! But we must know where you could put your feet and how they might be exploited," quipped Lionnel Luca (UMP).
face his critics, the opposition is almost a tone lower: "If they had gone there, it would have been meaningless," said Alain Vidal (PS). "The position of PS is very clear. We have reminded those who had not complied with. There is only one president legitimate, "he said in an allusion to Alassane Ouattara.
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