What a story!
Valérie Pécresse could use this expression of François Mitterrand on the announcement of her victory on May 10, 1981. She has not yet won the presidential election of 2022, but Valérie Pécresse has become, since Saturday, the candidate for the right and from the center, winner of the Republican Congress against Eric Ciotti.
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She was not the favorite in this election, observers were few to bet on her victory, but Valérie Pécresse believed in it from the start.
“From the start, I told myself it was playable,
” she confirms.
I knew that with real debates, voters would find out that I was really right-wing and that I had ideas. ”
The president of the Île-de-France region is used to being underestimated.
"At the ENA, they called me young and pretty," she
recalls, emphasizing the permanent misunderstanding between what she really is and the perception of others, generally her opponents, who caricature her as a young blonde woman ...
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