The Republican Party candidate (LR) in the presidential election 2022 wants to “clean up neighborhoods” and attack Mr. Macron on his record of safety. It will be Thursday on the topic on this theme.
Le Monde with AFP
“I want to clean the neighborhoods”: Words with strong connotation, voluntarily close to the shock formula used by former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy in 2005, remained in the annals political. In this presidential campaign 2022, Valérie Pécresse, candidate the Republicans (LR), resumes the formula on his behalf, in an interview given on a daily basis La Provence, out Wednesday output January 5th at the evening . “I’m going out the Kärcher of the cellar. It’s been ten years since it’s and it’s time to use it. It’s about putting back on the street”, because “we do not give any more Answer Faced with the violence of new barbarians “, says M me pecresse, which will be Thursday in the Bouches-du-Rhône and the Vaucluse to speak security.
Making the authority and security of the central themes of its presidential campaign, on which it is particularly advised by its former rival of the right-time congress, Mr CIOTTI, the president of the Ile-de- France offers in particular in this interview to use “brigades fists, including digital means, the tax, but also the army, in order to secure the perimeters of intervention”.
A theme of Central confrontation in the match with Mr. Macron
In June 2005, just after the death of an 11-year-old boy in his house in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Mr. Sarkozy, a new young Minister of the Interior, had visited on the spot And had announced his will to “clean in Kärcher” the city of 4,000 where the victim lived. In turn M me pecresse wants to mark the opinion with the formula-shock and impose in the presidential match, notably against the president of the outgoing Republic, on a central theme of campaign.
While Emmanuel Macron must go to Nice on Monday, January 10 on the same theme and that the members of the presidential majority continue to criticize Valérie Pécresse in recent weeks, the latter considers that “if he [Mr. Macron] Short after the Republicans candidate on this theme, that’s why there is feverishness, worry in his camp “.
“The” at the same time “does not work on security. Macron makes the diversion with his sentences, but when the French will open his eyes on his balance sheet, they will see a crisis of total authority,” continues to Attacking M me Pécresse, before adding: “We have a president who is permanently discounted, to insult or to seduce. The French know me less, because I act.”
Security is “the first freedoms”, still asserts the candidate in this interview, also taking into account an expression of the national rally, which, according to her, “prosper on public impotence”. “My political DNA is to do,” she insisted, a formula she continues to repeat during her campaign.