The party candidate The Republicans (LR) inaugurated, on Tuesday, his country headquarters in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, claiming that “the true presidential campaign begins today”.
Le Monde with AFP
One more step in the acceleration of the race to the Elysee 2022. The party candidate the Republicans (LR) in the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, elected at the Congress of the Party in December, inaugurated, Tuesday, January 4th, his Campaign HQ in the 17 e Arrondissement de Paris. The opportunity for her to present the press the open space of 1,500 square meters, called “the factory”, where will beat the heart of his campaign, and to present the complete organization chart of his team, his “great army of conquest at the service of France “.
“The real presidential campaign begins today,” said the president of the Ile-de-France region. Less than 100 days of the first round of the presidential election, the candidate promised a campaign that will “look like any other”. In a resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic and a fifth wave characterized by Delta and Omicron variants, M me pecresse, who wishes to post a responsible leader image, promised to be ” Copy “on respect for gauges and gestures barriers throughout its three months of the countryside. “We will make a hyperproximity campaign to counteract the sanitary constraints,” she argues.
A team that integrates all the currents and tenors of the party
Around it, during this presentation, were in particular meeting his country director Patrick Stefanini as well as his “musketeers”, as she likes to appoint them, his old rivals of the Congress, with the exception of Philippe Juvin, Positive diagnosed with COVID-19. All will occupy, as promised by the candidate, a place of choice in his campaign, that of special advisers, in the fields that know them and will be his “ambassadors on the ground”, she said. Eric Ciotti inherits the question of “authority”, Michel Barnier of that of “the place of France and Europe in the world”, Xavier Bertrand of “work” and “territories” and Philippe Juvin de la “Health”.
Other semen from the party inherit from a place of choice in this country organization chart. Bruno Retailleau, Head of the Senators Group LR, is responsible for preparing the first 100 days of a possible mandate. The centrist Hervé Morin is in charge of growth and businesses, while the Europété François-Xavier Bellamy inherits the file of the last six weeks of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). The leader of the LR MPs, Damien Abad, is, for his part, in charge of the file of “education and family”, while the question of “ecology” was entrusted to Yann Wehrling and Jean Rottner.
M me Pécresse also endowed with a team of six spokespersons representing “the new faces of the right”: the secretary general of the party and deputy of the lot, Aurélien Pradié, The President of Youth LR, Guilhem Carayon, MEP Agnès Evren, the President of the Pays de la Loire Region, Christelle Morançais, and the Vice-Presidents of Ile-de-France, Florence Portelli and Othman Nasrou.
The organization chart, which takes care to mix the different currents of the right party, also integrates the support committees the president of the Senate, Gérard Lacher (Honorary President), and the former party president As President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez (in support of elected officials). Thirty regional speakers are appointed and several centers of thematic work (activating, overseas animation) established.