The political class, more sexist than the rest of the French?
That's what Valérie Pécresse seems to think.
Guest of France Info this Wednesday morning, the president of the Ile-de-France region, who has embarked on the battle to obtain the LR nomination in the presidential race of 2022, was invited to speak on the subject.
🗣️ "The political class is still quite conservative and has difficulty in projecting itself into a female President of the Republic, but the French are much more open", estimates Valérie Pécresse
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"I believe that the political class is still quite conservative, it still has trouble projecting" on the fact of having a woman at the Elysee Palace, regretted Valérie Pécresse.
The French "much more open"
But the French, them, "are much more open," she believes.
Proof of this is, for the potential candidate LR: “they elect female mayors, female regional presidents”.
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"If I come out on top, of course I will bring together the whole team" of the Republicans, apart from elsewhere assured Valérie Pécresse.
The president of the region recently returned to the party with a view to the congress which will make it possible to designate the one who will represent the LRs in the presidential election.
According to her, they are the ones who came to get her.
“They held out their hand to me, so it was normal for me to grab it,” she told France Info.
At his side, Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Philippe Juvin, Eric Ciotti and Denis Payre will also try to represent the Republicans in the presidential election.