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We have to hit the Macron-Le Pen duel, the duel between the immobility of Emmanuel Macron and the demagoguery of Marine Le Pen!"
»On Saturday in Brive-la-Gaillarde, when Valérie Pécresse sent a message of unity to her friends on the right gathered in La Baule, since her Corrèze meeting, she also strongly expressed her determination to defend a project for France .
“Valérie president!
Valérie president!
Valérie president!
», Launch his supporters under a white marquee erected in the heart of the city, in the park of Guierle.
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As its campaign manager Patrick Stefanini says, Brive is her “her own
Mont Mézenc
”. Every year, Valérie Pécresse brings together the living forces of Libres! and it is not surprising to see there blooming today the first posters of a national ambition where one sees it, the arms raised under slogans like "the
French pride rediscovered
" or "
Valérie Pécresse 2022
".
This weekend, the landscape of the primary of the right was clarified a little more and the former minister promised to play "
always collective
" and to accept "
the rule which will be fixed
". She also insisted on the importance for the right to have only one candidate "
at the end
". But she immediately warned that she was not embarking on this adventure to make up. “
My duty of truth forces me to also tell you one thing: if I am a candidate, it is to win. So I won't let go. My determination is intact!
», She insisted to the applause.
In addition to Patrick Stefanini, who was the campaign director for Jacques Chirac in 1995 and François Fillon in 2017, the patron saint of Libres!
entrusted his presidential project to Frédéric Lemoine, former secretary general of Jacques Chirac at the Élysée.
His pen is Igor Mitrofanoff, a close friend of François Fillon.
"Amplify the momentum"
“
The sun of Brive is here.
We are going to do great things together, and it starts now
”.
For Pécresse, the Brive meeting is part of a launch phase that began on July 22 with its declaration of candidacy in Le Figaro, but it is also an opportunity to “
amplify the momentum
” of its campaign.
According to those close to him, his summer tour of France allowed him to refine his diagnosis and his reflection on the country's problems.
Stefanini lends it at least three assets: "
Unheard-of energy, a taste for concrete solutions and a real experience of reforms
".
He also feels that being a woman is also a significant pull factor, like some people who have come to power such as Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and other political figures in Europe. North.
“
It can really be another way of chairing,
” enthuses his advisor.
I heard the anger, I met glances touched but worthy ... French people beaming with optimism
Valerie Pécresse
Moreover, Saturday in Brive, Valérie Pécresse drew the outlines of her vision of power starting from her perception of the French.
"I heard the anger, I met glances reached but worthy ... French radiant optimism
". Then, by paying homage to Jacques Chirac, this Corrézien who gave him "
so much
", she praised the political qualities of a statesman "
far from the Jupiterian posture of the current president who has dug a wedge between the power and the people
”. “
Another way of presiding exists. My presidency will be more arbitration, more sober, more collective, and let's say it, less egocentric and less talkative
”, promised the candidate, before inviting the voters to prepare their
“Ballot paper
”
.
"No presidential election was ever played eight months in advance,
" she recalled.
Then Valérie Pécresse applied herself to tailoring costumes for potential rivals.
Marine Le Pen first.
“
The extreme right is not there to solve your problems but to exploit them through its double obsession: withdrawal and rejection.
The extreme right is France on a small scale,
”she lambasted.
"Your at the same time is your failure"
The second salvo was reserved for the President of the Republic. “
I say with regret that the five-year term that is coming to an end will have been a five-year term for almost nothing. The COVID pandemic must not mask the real state of the country, with its violence, its fractures and its blockages, ”
states Pécresse, drawing an alarming picture of the country, security, victims of violence and the development of radicalization by the way. by mass unemployment. "
I know that the health crisis has shaken up the five-year term ... But the time has come for Emmanuel Macron to take responsibility for his balance sheet! “,
Added the candidate in her scathing indictment. "
Waste reform of pensions "," amateurism "and" lack of will "of the government," rise of communitarianism "," irregular immigration "," lawless areas "...
For Pécresse, the President of the Republic"
did not took these subjects head on ”. “Yes, Mr. President, on these subjects which touch the heart of the Republic in its flesh, your at the same time, it is your failure!
", She added before wondering what will remain of the Macron years"
in terms of diplomacy
". In terms of foreign policy, the candidate wants France "to
stop being the soft underbelly of the world
" and "
to focus on the protection of Europeans
".
Turning again to the presidential election, she continued in the same tone: “
in 2022, the candidate for almost nothing should not be president any longer.
You believed him to be a reformer;
he is less so than me.
He would like to resemble the right: he is a pale copy, I am, with you, the original.
It is already the past.
We will be the alternation.
We will be the future.
"
For a return of order
After these criticisms, of unprecedented force against Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse is committed to changing things in several areas. She promised a "
relentless fight
" against violence, more effective justice and the return of "
order
". “
The individual who slapped the President of the Republic was within an hour brought before a judge and immediately imprisoned, which is fair. But it would be even more so if the attacks on all the victims, much less famous, were treated with the same efficiency,
”she underlined. In matters of immigration, she pleaded in favor of quotas, believing that France did
not have the means to accommodate all the misery in the world
.
In the name of freedom, the candidate is also committed to fight against
"bureaucratic hell
" by creating an
"ax committee
" whose mission will be "to
remove unnecessary rules and waste
."
"
The reconciliation of labor and capital is at the heart of my project,
" said the former budget minister for whom "
there is no French pride without economic sovereignty
".
Rising wages and guaranteed retirement
Another promise put forward by Valérie Pécresse on Saturday, to respond to a “
thirst for dignity
”: to increase the salaries of the French and the guarantee of a retirement “
at least equivalent to the minimum wage
”. “
Let us set the objective that the net salary received by the majority of French people increases by at least 10% but without this costing our companies more expensive. It's possible. I cannot accept that the purchasing power of the French is lower than that of our German neighbors, ”she said.
Candidate of the “families of France”, as she was able to develop it in a recent article published in Le Figaro, she again said she wanted a “
national leap
” for the school.
Once these many "
lines of force
" exposed, Valérie Pécresse said she was "
ready
" to carry her project for France. "
I dream of seeing my country regain its flame and that smile which belongs to the peoples who are standing up and succeeding
", finally concluded the presidential candidate, turning one last time to the French and her youth under the encouragement of activists, all visibly delighted to be there. “
No, you don't have to be ashamed to be French… Be the tricolor generation, fraternal, daring, the one that rushes towards new hopes
”.