A very good news ".
This is the reaction of Valérie Pécresse the day after Xavier Bertrand rallied to the LR congress.
The candidate for the nomination of the right for the presidential one sees in it "the guarantee for all the voters of the right that they will have at the end only one and only candidate".
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"You should never be afraid of democracy in politics," added the president of Ile-de-France, ex-LR, on the sidelines of a trip to Yonne to present her proposals on education.
Monday evening, the president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand put an end to the suspense by assuring that he would participate in the LR congress which will nominate the right-wing candidate for the presidential election on December 4.
This decision "finally allows to start a real campaign on the substance of the subjects and on what are our projects for France", added Valérie Pécresse, preceded in the opinion polls by Xavier Bertrand.
"The gathering of a team from France"
"It is not the polls which make the election, it is the convictions", she assured, questioned on that carried out by Ifop for Sud Radio which placed Monday for the first time the president of Hauts- de-France in a position to access the second round of the presidential election.
"I have no opponent in my political family," she assured.
"The goal is for the right and the center to have the best candidate to beat Macron," she said.
"Behind the candidate who will be appointed by the congress, there will inevitably be the gathering of a team from France, which begins to look like something" with the various candidates for the congress who are, according to her, "professionals of politics, quite the opposite of the government of Emmanuel Macron ”.
The LR deputy of Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, the former European negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier (LR) and the LR mayor of La Garenne-Colombes Philippe Juvin will also be candidates for the congress.
