During a face-to-face very expected by both sides, Thursday evening, the Republican candidate has repeatedly denounced “the impotence” of his opponent.
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It was necessary to solve it. Failing to face the head of state she had erected in the first adversary, the candidate of the right Valérie Pécresse accepted the invitation of the extreme right candidate Eric Zemmour to debate. It’s face to face, as for a small finale before the first ballot of the first round, that the two managers faced first on TF1 before switching to LCI, Thursday, March 10th.
For Valérie Pécresse, there was urgency to measure himself with the one who, certainly decreased in the polls, but attracts to him many sympathizers of the party the Republicans (LR). In several opinion of Valerie Pécresse is lagging behind, behind the extreme right candidate.
For the Frames of the LR, the candidate’s situation is such, that she had finally gain than to lose in an exchange with Eric Zemmour. After all, his services during the debates of separation between the competitors for the investiture on the right in November 2021 had, they recall, be good. But others conversely were afraid that fatigue noted by many lately does not serve it.
“You will be a helpless president”
Thursday, it is a Combative Valérie Pécresse, Pugnace – almost at the limit – and in command of the bottom of the files that faced Eric Zemmour. “Ideologist”, “inhumanity”, “doctrinaire”, “you will be a helpless president,” the candidate of the right did not mince his words against his opponent, leaves regularly to raise his voice and the interrupt. The overall tone of the exchange, tense, sometimes made the moment of painful television for the viewer. Journalists who even asked the two guests to be “polished” with each other. “We are not in a playground,” Ruth Elkrief recalled.
The charge of Valérie Pécresse started on the very sensitive subject of Ukraine. It’s days that the right reminiscent of envy the ambiguous positions vis-à-vis the Russia of Eric Zemmour and its refusal to welcome all Ukrainian refugees. Thursday, M me Pécresse has engulfed in this breach: “I believe that in the wars reveal both characters and values and I believe that with this war in Ukraine, there is To the Gaullist spirit that is to defend freedom, democracy. It is to take sanctions against Putin and it is to be humanity vis-à-vis the refugees we see in Ukraine, “A-T -she throws. Before adding, reminiscent of the positions of his opponent: “say that Ukraine does not exist, that it is the rear base of Russia, as you did, it is to say that Putin is Democrat, This means that Putin is the attacked and that is to say a French poutine. That’s why you would not make a good president “.
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