The Republicans’ candidate officially received the support of the centrists and is expected at the National Council of the Union of Democrats (UDI), which should also vote to support him in Vincennes.
Le Monde with AFP
After orchestrated his reunion with Laurent Wauquiez on Friday, she staged her proximity to the right center parties. Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the Republicans in the presidential election officially received on Saturday, January 22 the support of the centrists and is expected to the National Council of the Union of Democrats and Independent (UDI), which should therefore support it. / p>
She promised the small training of the centrists “a program of powerful reforms”, without letting go on the Firmness in the field of treat. “My project is right, it is breaking, but it is 100% compatible with your values,” said the candidate, adding: “We are here to embody a third way between immobilism and demagogy.” / P>
She was speaking at the National Centrists Council, who had just voted a motion promising to engage “fully and totally for his campaign”. Paying tribute to the “fidelity” of the party chaired by Hervé Morin, she greeted values in which she “recognizes”: “Europe, solidarity, freedom, decentralization” but also “open to society, its evolutions “such as” equality between all regardless of [the] origin or [the] origin, gender equality “.
” I’m not zigzag “
Faced with “presidential cynicism”, the President of Ile-de-France promised to “return order to the accounts” with a program of “powerful reforms” on pensions, unemployment insurance or decentralization. “We will put at the heart of our project the word” educate “,” she also promised, taking his idea of ”educational nation” that “will end the unique college that is actually uniform”.
Criticizing without appointing Eric Zemmour, she felt that “school inclusion is not a dangerous obsession, but a fiery obligation” because “we have to learn the existence of vulnerability and difference”. And “I want to talk to this campaign for tenderness, love and fraternity,” launched the former Minister of Higher Education.
“I’m not zigzag, I’m not saying to everyone what he wants to hear,” she added in the aftermath a visit to the very right-hander Laurent Wauquiez, highlighting his “obsession” of ” Redo nation “. “With me you will have a president who will give order,” she assured by offering a “zero impunity pact” and an “emergency plan”.
UDI Must vote on Saturday
Hervé Morin on his side assured to have “no problem” with this firmness on the treat. “When one is a right center we are liberal, one is attached to individual freedoms, but it is also for a strong state on its regal missions, able to ensure the security, justice and the protection of our compatriots,” he added.
Valérie Pécresse is then expected at the National Council of the Union of Democrats and Independent (UDI), in Vincennes. The President of the UDI, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, brought her on Friday his support in an interview in Figaro, with the objective that his movement becomes the “moderate leg” of the candidate against the right-hand line of his lieutenant Eric Ciotti .
“For the moment, she is just the candidate of the right. Now she needs to know, like Nicolas Sarkozy, gather the right and center, and go get the voters who vote Macron,” adds-t -he. Because the candidate of the Republicans “has gathered his political family very well”, but “it must sort of what would be a trap”, explains Jean-Christophe Lagarde: “The omnipresence of Eric Ciotti gives a false idea of The candidacy of Valérie Pécresse, it makes it unijambist. “
According to the president of the UDI, “we will not take voters in Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen. On the other hand, many people resign themselves to Emmanuel Macron but would like a hope”, who “can s ‘Call Valérie Pécresse “. For this, Jean-Christophe Lagarde arrested the candidate on “three challenges” that are “sovereignty, cohesion and the environment”. “If our National Council votes support for Valérie Pécresse, I hope that IDU officials will be integrated into all floors of the organization chart,” he says too.