"Everybody aboard."
This is the slogan of the pécressistes for the three months of the presidential campaign to come.
Tuesday, during a press conference, Valérie Pécresse presented her campaign organization chart, confirming the information from
Le Figaro
published in recent weeks.
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If the support of the candidate is well represented in the team - Patrick Stefanini is campaign director;
Geoffroy Didier, director of communications;
Frédéric Lemoine director of the project;
Brice Hortefeux special advisor in charge of institutional reforms;
Othman Nasrou, spokesperson;
Alexandra Dublanche coordinating the support committees and the response unit - the former LR congress teams join the HQ.
With a goal posted by Valérie Pécresse: to go beyond the stables of the past and create a collective to lead the presidential campaign.
Valérie Pécresse's “four musketeers” and their supporters
The
"four musketeers"
of Valérie Pécresse - friendly nickname she dons her former opponents in Congress - are all appointed advisers to the candidate. Eric Ciotti, the finalist, will be in charge of questions of authority, against “France and Europe in the world” for Michel Barnier. As for Xavier Bertrand, he will work on “the Republic of Territories” - his leitmotif in recent months - and Work, against health for Philippe Juvin.
The former supporters of the fallen ex-candidates are also associated with the campaign, like Vincent Chriqui (Bertrand team) or Vanessa Williot-Bertrand (wife of Xavier Bertrand), Émilie Bonnivard or Daniel Fasquelle (Barnier team) , Alexandra Borchio-Fontimp (Ciotti team), François Varlet (Juvin team). Alongside them, the presidents of the LR groups in the Senate and the National Assembly, Bruno Retailleau and Damien Abad, will respectively deal with the preparation of the first 100 days, and education, family, youth and the Republic. united.
Another arrival in the team: the vice-president of the regional council of Île-de-France, Yann Werhling, ex-environmental activist, moved to MoDem, which will take care of
"the ecological emergency"
.
Way to emphasize that the candidate intends to address the right and the center, beyond the Republicans.
The boss of the Centrists, Hervé Morin, close to Valérie Pécresse, also becomes one of his closest advisers in charge of questions of growth, innovation and economic sovereignty.
The tenors alongside the candidate
In addition to early support and ex-candidates, all LR tenors will participate in Valérie Pécresse's campaign. Way not to reproduce the error of François Fillon in 2017. Thus Gérard Larcher and Laurent Wauquiez will be in charge of the support committees, Jean-François Copé is appointed special advisor for city policy, integration and assimilation . Nadine Morano becomes political advisor, like Annie Genevard, also responsible for the elected pole elsewhere. François-Xavier Bellamy, special advisor to the candidate, will coordinate relations with the European Parliament. As for Julien Aubert, he will coordinate the response unit, made up of Robin Reda, Valérie Boyer, Valérie Debord or even Jonas Haddad, all designated to go up to the front. With Charles Prats by their side,magistrate, known for his work on tax fraud.
As for the Republicans party, finally, it will have a place of choice in the campaign: the boss of the movement Christian Jacob participates in the strategic council.
And Aurélien Pradié, number 3 of LR, is spokesperson, just like Guilhem Carayon, president of young LR.
