She was expected around the corner.
A few hours after the publication of an article in the daily
Liberation,
which stipulates that the internal ballot of the Republicans from which Valérie Pécresse emerged victorious, would have been marred by
"fraudulent maneuvers
" aimed at inflating the electorate, the candidate of the right was l guest of the show “
Face à BFM
” on Wednesday evening.
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Not surprisingly, the more than thorny subject was addressed from the first minutes.
“
I would like to be indignant at the level of this campaign
”, began Valérie Pécresse rather tense.
And to point the finger at “
a grotesque manipulation operation which is totally beside the real debates for the French.
»
While she had won this partisan battle hands down (60.95%) against Éric Ciotti in the second round or Xavier Bertrand in the first, the Elysian applicant insists that "
this primary was exemplary and
took place without no dispute.
“
If my opponents had had the slightest doubt – everyone had access to the list of elected officials – they would not have contested this election?
“, she pretends to wonder.
"You don't just have friends when you want to become President of the Republic"
Without knowing who the information comes from, Valérie Pécresse seems to affirm that she came from her own camp: “
You don't only have friends when you want to become President of the Republic.
“His campaign skating in public opinion for a few weeks, the presidential contender hits back and sees in these
“allegations”
the organization of “
a campaign of destabilization.
“Before hammering that his election”
was consensual in its results.
»
Faced with claims by
Liberation
which claim that several deceased voters and even a dog named Douglas were able to participate in the ballot – which provoked a wave of ridicule on social networks – the LR leader defends a “
totally controlled process.
“
It's all
pure controversy.
(...).
It's really petty politics
, ”she still asserts to better then mock the questions put to her.
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“
To fall so low is not worthy of a political program on the presidential election.
It is not serious, that there could be a hoax in a primary, it can happen, but it does not call into question the sincerity of the ballot
, ”tance Valérie Pécresse who will not file a complaint against
Liberation,
as will LR.
The party had also denounced in a press release an
“attempt to destabilize”
:
“The Congress was in every way exemplary, both in its organization and in its mobilization”.
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For the past few weeks, Valérie Pécresse has been going through a very bad patch.
After the departure of Éric Woerth, the harsh criticism of Nicolas Sarkozy in
Le Figaro
and his failure during the Zenith meeting almost two weeks ago, the candidate is experiencing a real air pocket in the polls.
In the Rolling Ifop for
Paris Match
, LCI and Sud Radio, the president of the Ile-de-France region drops to 14.5% of voting intentions, behind Marine Le Pen (15.5%) and Éric Zemmour (16%).
Opinion studies will tell in the coming days if this new blow will have an impact on opinion.