Valérie Pécresse, outgoing president (Libres !, ex-LR) of the Ile-de-France region and candidate for re-election, "calls for the return of floor sentences".
For her, it is a question of facing the "crisis of authority" notably symbolized by the slap received Tuesday by President Emmanuel Macron.
"Extremely shocked" by this "attack on the figure of supreme authority", the outgoing candidate estimated Wednesday on LCI that this slap "refers to a reality that we live on a daily basis".
"We need an exemplary sanction for those who attacked the president, but also for all those who attack our authority figures on a daily basis," she said, citing "police officers, gendarmes, firefighters, mayors or teachers" .
"At least one third of the maximum penalty"
"I demand the return of the floor sentences", removed by François Hollande in 2014, "for this type of aggression", said the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy who had established them in 2007. Automatically condemn a repeat offender to "at least a third of the maximum penalty "when" we attack figures of authority "would be a" signal ", she claims.
A return to floor sentences has been regularly demanded by right-wing and far-right officials in recent weeks, after recent violence against police officers.
Valérie Pécresse was also worried to see "the rise of a radicalism in the country" and condemned the "intolerable words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon" as those of "militants of the extreme right".
The words of the leader of the rebels predicting Sunday "a serious incident or a murder" in the last week of the presidential campaign, an event "written in advance", aroused indignation in the political class.
He "crossed all the limits", judge Valérie Pécresse for whom an alliance between two turns of the other left candidates with those of LFI would be a "moral and political fault".