In every election, there are winners and losers.
Some minimize the fall and sometimes even make it encouraging and others sublimate the victory even if the abstention is strong.
This Monday, in the camp of Valérie Pécresse (Free!), It is in any case smile on all floors.
She was re-elected for a six-year lease at the head of the first region of France and its 12.2 million inhabitants.
Head of the list in Paris, Frédéric Péchenard (LR) is far from sulking his pleasure. The vice-president in charge of security issues is even delighted with the trick they have just played on the Parisian left. “The score of Valérie Pécresse
(Editor's note: 43.23% in Paris against 41.32% in the union of the left)
is a real satisfaction, attacks the former police commissioner. Our score is even better than in 2015 when this year it was a quadrangular and not a triangular. And on top of that, LREM collapses and the RN does not pierce. "This close to Nicolas Sarkozy even drives home the point:" This alliance of the left made of odds and ends, carp and rabbit, has not succeeded in worrying us. Frankly, our score is the result of the good work of Valérie Pécresse over the past six years. "
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A finding that deserves some nuances, however.
In the first round, the outgoing president came out on top in three quarters of the Parisian arrondissements, leaving only five to Julien Bayou (EELV) and Clémentine Autain (LFI-PCF).
In the evening of the second round, right and left share as many districts even if the supporters of Pécresse win the most important.
"All of this is a source of hope for 2026"
But unlike other polls, the LRs appeared united behind Valérie Pécresse even if she left this party to found her own. “It's very important because in Paris, I had the full support of Rachida Dati
(Editor's note: head of LR at the Paris Council)
but also of Agnès Evren
(president of the LR federation in Paris)
. We all played the same game and we finished with two points more than the left, analyzes Frédéric Péchenard. We come out of this election strengthened so yes, I have every reason to be happy. All of this gives hope for 2026
(the next municipal deadline)
because we have succeeded in shaking the Parisian left. "
By then, water will flow under the Mirabeau Bridge and next year's presidential election will have gone through it. A national election in which Anne Hidalgo, the mayor (PS) of Paris, could have a say, but perhaps also Valérie Pécresse. "With this result, she qualifies, for the rest ... well what she wants to do or not", always slips with a smile Frédéric Péchenard.