The third Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Prize was to be awarded Monday evening in the Senate in the presence of President Gérard Larcher, Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune and Louis Giscard d'Estaing, President of the VGE Foundation.
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Passed away on December 2, 2020, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was able to award this prize himself during the 2019 edition. European questions, the former President of the Republic had asked them to "succeed" by entrusting them with the following words: "
This project belongs to you." To carry it out, you will have to let go of many of your negative thoughts, such as political prejudices, individual selfishness, fear of change and believe in the strength of the great hope that comes your way to build one of the great civilizations. of the 21st century, based on the foundations of our history
”.
In the same spirit, Louis Giscard d'Estaing wished to greet the laureates of the last two editions for which the students had disserted on two themes: the projects for Europe which could benefit from popular support and the dysfunctions resulting from the enlargement of the European Union to 27 countries.
The winners are Judith Nayberg (Professional Bar Training School) for 2020 and Patrick Noël Horstmeier (National School of Administration) for 2021. In addition to the members of the jury, former Minister Alain Lamassoure, Ambassador Étienne de Poncins and the President of the Schuman Foundation Jean-Dominique Giuliani were also expected at the Luxembourg Palace.
For an Elysée / Matignon ticket
On the sidelines of this ceremony, Louis Giscard d'Estaing, who is also vice-president of the UDI, regional councilor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and mayor of Chamalières, shared with
Le Figaro
his feelings on the primary of the right , while LR members will choose their presidential candidate on December 4. “
The fact that we are moving towards a candidacy for a union of the right and the center, if the UDI has to compete for this union after the decision of December, it will be necessary to bring signals. And in this period, if I can make a proposal, it would be interesting if there could be the announcement of an Élysée-Matignon ticket
, ”suggests the president of the VGE foundation.
In addition to the “new” nature of such a ticket in the Fifth Republic, Louis Giscard d'Estaing believes that this idea could respond to an expectation of “
more collegial
”
governance
and “
simplify the selection criteria
”. For him, this ticket announced upstream in a "
transparent
" way could be composed by the winner and the number two of the ballot organized in congress by The Republicans.
Mayor of Chamalières since 2005, the son of VGE favors the “
option
” of a ticket formed from candidates who participated in the LR congress.
"
Even if there are other hypotheses of tickets, it would be good to be able to announce in advance the names of those who could join Matignon if a holder were elected to assume the presidential function
", adds Louis Giscard d 'Estaing, without ignoring that other formulas of executive tandems circulate on the right, on the sidelines of the internal primary of the Republicans.
