Six months before the regional elections, the presidential majority is slow to establish its strategy in Île-de-France. “It's not stabilized. You still have to have the desire to want, ” impatiently a deputy from Ile-de-France LREM. “It's pretty nebulous,” adds another. Emmanuel Macron's movement does not want to relive the painful municipal campaign in Paris, where, stuck in a left-right duel, he had finally played an extra role. Macronists wonder: should we present a list or support Valérie Pécresse?
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The question is thorny. To oppose the outgoing president of Île-de-France is to take the risk of being humiliated in the first round. But supporting it is difficult to explain to voters while the former minister aims to face Emmanuel Macron in 2022 ... To this is added the position of MoDem and Agir who still sit in the regional majority. Like, for example, the new Secretary of State MoDem Nathalie Elimas. “With Valérie Pécresse,
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