Candidate for the nomination of LR, Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Île-de-France region, announces this Thursday that she is re-joining the party she left in 2019, according to information from
Point
.
The entourage of Valérie Pécresse confirms to the
Parisian that
she is taking back her card to the Republicans party.
"She considered it normal to make a gesture" after the acceptance of her candidacy for Congress on Wednesday by The Republicans.
“It has been strongly suggested to him by parliamentarians in recent days.
It was not insensitive to it, and it would be the logical continuation to be able to vote in the congress ”, confided to us Thursday morning a deputy close to the president of Ile de France.
"I will join the Republicans again," declares Valérie Pécresse in the columns of the weekly newspaper.
This is the logical consequence of the fact that I accepted from the start to play as a team.
It's a question of consistency ”.
She will formalize this decision this Thursday evening, during a public meeting in Dijon (Côte-d'Or).
Earlier today, the presidential candidate warned Republican boss Christian Jacob.
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The former Minister of Higher Education and Research, then of the Budget, had left LR on June 5, 2019 after the party's bitter failure in the European elections (8.5% of the vote), which had caused the resignation of Laurent Wauquiez.
To stand out from her rival, she then founded her own movement, Free!
whose purpose was to “propose a positive, firm, social and reforming right”.
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“Today, I am asking all the members of Libres !, who share the values of the right, like me, to join LR in order to build together the party of reconquest and alternation.
And this line, I apply it to myself.
Our goal is, together, to beat Emmanuel Macron, ”now supports Valérie Pécresse.
