It is well known: the best soups are made in old pots.
Valérie Pécresse therefore decided to bring out a hackneyed expression, but which had some success with right-wing voters.
In an interview with the daily La Provence, published this Wednesday evening, the LR presidential candidate assured that she wanted "to bring the Kärcher out of the cellar.
It has been ten years and now is the time to use it.
It is a question of putting order in the street "because" one does not give any more answer vis-a-vis the violence of the new barbarians ", she explained, thus taking again an expression used by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was minister of the Interior and has remained in political annals ever since.
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Just after the death, in June 2005, of an 11-year-old boy in front of his home in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Nicolas Sarkozy went there and announced his desire to "clean with a karcher" the city of 4000 where the victim lived.
"Punch brigades"
"I want to clean up the neighborhoods," said Valérie Pécresse in turn, on the eve of a trip scheduled for Thursday in the Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse to address the subject of security.
She proposed in particular to use "punching brigades, including digital means, the tax authorities, but also the army, in order to secure the areas of intervention".
While Emmanuel Macron is due to go to Nice next Monday on the same theme, she believes that "if he runs after the Republican candidate on this subject, it is good that there is excitement, anxiety in his camp ”.
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Macron is creating a diversion with his sentences, but when the French open their eyes to his record, they will see a crisis of total authority, ”said Valérie Pécresse.
“We have a president who talks constantly, to insult or to seduce.
The French know me less, because I act, ”argues the president of the Ile-de-France region.
Security is "the first of freedoms", added the candidate, using an expression of the National Rally which, according to her "thrives on public impotence".
"My political DNA is to do," she insisted.
