Valérie Pécresse loses a heavy weight.
Above all, she sees one of her heaviest arguments attacked against Emmanuel Macron, that of the serious budget.
Eric Woerth's rallying to Emmanuel Macron is indeed a blow for the LR candidate because of her status - former minister of the Sarkozyist inner circle, current head of the Assembly's finance committee -;
and even more because of the chosen calendar, on the eve of a meeting intended to breathe new life into his campaign.
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This moment signs the intention.
We are not only facing an individual choice but facing a blow struck at the time when it will hurt the most.
This personal dimension is however secondary.
Admittedly, the macronists praise the
"courage"
of a man who puts
"his country before his party"
and the pécressistes feel sorry for the weakness of a veteran
"weary"
of political life and the reversal of the one who does not he was not the least severe censor of the quinquennium.
Classic tunes.
But…
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