© KEYSTONE / AP / Francois Mori
The candidate of the Les Républicains (LR) party for the French presidential election Valérie Pécresse announced Thursday that she had contracted Covid-19. She will continue her campaign “from a distance and in compliance with health rules”.
“All our meetings are maintained thanks to the mobilization of the team,” she wrote on Twitter. Ms. Pécresse, who tested positive on Thursday afternoon, was to go to Bordeaux on Friday, but “the meeting will be hosted by someone else”, it was said in her entourage, without giving further details. .
His Saturday trip to the Bouches-du-Rhône “is canceled”, we added. The candidate LR had presented Thursday morning a draft reform of the Constitution to “restore order”. She had participated Wednesday evening in a television program with Marion Maréchal, Fabien Roussel and Adrien Quatennens.