The candidate for the investiture of the Republicans for the presidential election had left the party in 2019. She announces the “point”, Thursday, that she will resume his card.
Le Monde with AFP
Valérie Pécresse had distanced his distances with his political family from 2017 by creating the free movement !, Two years before leaving the Republicans (LR), in 2019. The candidate for Inauguration LR for the presidential election said, Thursday, October 14, that she was going to reassite the party, In an interview at the weekly point.
“I will adhere to the Republicans again. This is the logical consequence of the fact that I have accepted since the beginning of collective playing. It’s a question of consistency,” explains M me Pécresse, who has “informed the pattern of Republicans, Christian Jacob, in the day”, according to the point.
“Build the Party of the Reconquest”
“Today, I ask all free members!, who share like me the values of the right, to join LR to build the party of reconquest and alternation. And this line I applied it to myself. Our goal is together to beat Emmanuel Macron, “she added.
In 2019, his resignation had occurred ten days after the historical defeat of the party list in the European elections (8.48%), his worst score under the V e Republic, and three days After the resignation of the President of LR, Laurent Wauquiez.
His rival Xavier Bertrand, who announced on Monday, his participation in the LR Congress to designate the candidate of the right to the presidential election, “said the next day that he would not resume his member of the party. The activists will designate the LR candidate on December 4, among Mr. Bertrand, M me Pécresse, Michel Barnier, Philippe Juvin or Eric Ciotti.