After having orchestrated her reunion with Laurent Wauquiez on Friday, she stages her proximity to the center-right parties. Valérie Pécresse, the Republican candidate for the presidential election, officially received the support of the Centrists on Saturday January 22 and she is expected at the national council of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), which should also give her support.
She promised the small formation of the Centrists “a program of powerful reforms”, without letting go of firmness in matters of regal. “My project is right-wing, it is disruptive, but it is 100% compatible with your values”, assured the candidate, adding: “We are here to embody a third way between immobility and demagoguery. »
She was speaking at the National Council of Centrists, which had just voted a motion promising her to commit “fully and totally for his campaign”. Paying homage to the “loyalty” of the party chaired by Hervé Morin, she praised the values in which she ” recognised itself “ : “Europe, solidarity, freedom, decentralization” but also “open to society and its developments” as “equality for all regardless of [la] color or [l’]origin, gender equality”.
“I’m not a zigzag”
Face au “presidential cynicism”, the president of Ile-de-France has promised to “to put the accounts in order” with a program of “powerful reforms” on pensions, unemployment insurance or decentralization. “We are going to put at the heart of our project the word “educate” », she also promised, taking up her idea of “educational nation” Who “will end the single college which is in fact uniform”.
Criticizing without naming Eric Zemmour, she felt that “Inclusive education is not a dangerous obsession, but an ardent obligation” car “we must learn about the existence of vulnerability and difference”. And “I also want to speak in this campaign of tenderness, love and fraternity”, launched the former minister of higher education.
“I’m not zigzag, I don’t tell everyone what they want to hear”, she added the day after a visit to the very right-handed Laurent Wauquiez, emphasizing his « obsession » from “remaking a nation”. “With me you will have a president who will restore order”, she assured by offering a “zero impunity pact” and one ” emergency plan “.
The UDI must vote its support on Saturday
Hervé Morin for his part assured not to have ” no problem “ with this firmness on the regalian. “When you are from the center right, you are liberal, you are attached to individual freedoms, but you are also for a strong State on its sovereign missions, capable of ensuring 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 Independents (UDI), in Vincennes. The president of the UDI, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, gave him his support on Friday in an interview with the Figaro, with the aim that his movement becomes the “moderate leg” of the candidate facing the straight line of her lieutenant Eric Ciotti.
“For now, she’s just the right-wing candidate. She now needs to know, like Nicolas Sarkozy, to bring together the right and the center, and to seek out the voters who vote for Macron”, he adds. Because the Republican candidate “brought his political family together very well”, most “She has to get out 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 her one-legged. »
According to the president of the UDI, “We will not take voters from Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen. On the other hand, many people are resigned to Emmanuel Macron but would like a hope”, Who “may be called Valérie Pécresse”. For this, Jean-Christophe Lagarde challenged the candidate on “three challenges” what are “sovereignty, cohesion and the environment”. “If our national council votes to support Valérie Pécresse, I would like UDI officials to be integrated at all levels of the organization chart”, he also says.