A real war machine at the service of a candidate… This Saturday noon, the support committee for Valérie Pécresse was launched on the esplanade of La Défense.
Almost everything on the right and the center includes parliamentarians, regional and departmental councilors and mayors as well as "more than 300 elected municipal officials and activists" according to the organizers had made the trip for an impressive concentration of tricolor scarves this morning. of winter.
And no question of harming anyone.
All precautions were taken to avoid possible annoyances before the vote.
At the head of the committee, 16 co-chairs, starting with the departmental bosses of the two formations: Philippe Juvin for Les Républicains and Hervé Marseille for the UDI.
"This is proof of our local roots"
The President of the Departmental Council Georges Siffredi (LR) recovers a post of co-president as do the two departmental secretaries LR and UDI, Marie-Do Aeschlimann (LR) and Denis Larghero (UDI), the five remaining LR parliamentarians, Constance Le Grip, Christine Lavarde, Geoffroy Didier, Philippe Pemezec and Roger Karoutchi, the four 4 presidents of the territories Pierre-Christophe Baguet, Jean-Didier Berger, André Mancipoz and Jacques Kossowski and finally Agnès Pottier-Dumas, LR mayor of Levallois-Perret and representative of Hauts- de-Seine within the National Committee of Mayors.
Note the presence in the list of Marie-Christine Oghly, world president of Women Business Leaders.
"With Patrick Stefanini we wanted to associate in each department a co-president from civil society", specifies François Varlet, the deputy director of the campaign for Valérie Pécresse.
A committee with so many co-chairs can denote.
“The key word of this campaign is the team, justifies Philippe Juvin.
Everyone has their place and everyone contributes their stone…”
"The launch of this committee is the beginning of the campaign in the department", confirms Hervé Marseille.
It is also an assumed demonstration of force.
“Compared to others, whether on the left or En Marche, we are very numerous, adds the boss of the UDI Hauts-de-Seine.
We have the majority in the region, in the department, we have more cities than the others.
This launch is proof of our local roots.
We will be a relay of the candidate's proposals.
The next step will logically be the creation of committees at municipal and inter-municipal level.
We are ready.
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Its counterpart LR abounds.
“A committee with all these local elected officials is proof of our experience, insists Philippe Juvin.
This, and many other things, sets us apart from others.
This experience is the antithesis of amateurism!
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