French independence hopes to be further strengthened by Pécresse’s election

Faced with two right-wing candidates running for office, Valérie Pécresse, a newly elected leader who leads the Les Republicains in France in a presidential victory next year, has worked hard to secure a place in the run-off election.

But Pécresse’s victory over the first party on Saturday – a disturbing prediction of his favorites, including a former EU Brexit negotiator. Michel Barnier – could change the campaign and prevent Emmanuel Macron from running for re-election in April.

Former Minister of Higher Education and Budget under Nicolas Sarkozy, and since 2015 the leader of the Île-de-France region which includes Paris, Pécresse has many years of government. Researchers say that its principles – strong in law and order and strong in the economy – could attract the attention of some of the most influential voters who have flocked to the Macron platform, which will change things in 2017.

His appointment, following a five-way competition which included heavyweights, has since reshaped the LR as a political party. The group – from the French wing of former Presidents Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chirac – was included in the last election when the threat of fraud disrupted François Fillon’s campaign. Since then it has been plagued by internal strife as supporters rushed to the right.

Pécresse’s long-running election showed that a party that had three challenges – ideas, money and leadership – could rehabilitate itself by finding the “most legitimate” backed by the losers in elementary school, said Vincent Martigny, a professor of political science. at Nice university.

The LR had never elected a nominee, and could benefit from the modern image presented by Pécresse’s nomination, Martigny added.

Pécresse’s differences need to be closed to alliances with other aspiring presidents, even if they hide their differences with the parties, they are still large.

The sudden rise of elections Eric Zemmour, an anti-immigrant activist who has initiated comparisons with Donald Trump, confirmed the deep disappointment to date, able to tear predicted predictions between Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National Party, and Macron.

Both Zemmour and Le Pen have a chance to win the second round against Macron, recent elections have shown, while Pécresse has so far been lagging behind and supporting about 11 percent in the first round, less than that. half of Macron’s predictions.

One of Pécresse’s major attacks would be to distinguish his right-hand attitude from Macron’s “right or left”. Pécresse described Macron as a “chameleonic”. To the delight of his supporters on Saturday he called him the “zigzag” President who blew the wind.

“I will not abandon the truth or avoid difficult questions. I will not tell the French what they want to hear, “Pécresse told the Journal du Dimanche in an interview.

Pécresse is known to be the youngest in the LR team and is well known for putting climate change and the environment at the heart of his campaign. However, Le Pen and Zemmour pushing politics right and right took “uncontrolled migration” as something they could follow with strict rules for asylum seekers and migration units.

Pécresse is also a fundraiser, promising to spend public money and cut 200,000 administrative jobs. They have intensified Macron’s attacks on “money laundering”, particularly during the coronavirus epidemic, when – like another rich economy – France raised billions of euros to help struggling businesses and workers, as well as health workers.

“This is in line with the right voters, who even though they may think Macron has done a good job on the economy, have a preconceived notion that ‘all of this will have high taxes one day’,” Bruno said. Cautrès, a professor at Sciences Po in Paris, adds that Pécresse’s election was “not a very good one” for Macron.

Macron began to dominate his business ventures and initiated reforms, including freeing up the labor market, early in his career, but he was also affected by major anti-government protests, among other things due to rising cost of living.

In his political party, Pécresse’s main challenge will be to deal with qualified people whose refugee policies and policies and procedures are close to Zemmour and Le Pen. He defeated LR primary fighter Éric Ciotti, but won the first race with 39 percent of the final vote. Ciotti says he will vote for Zemmour in the run-up to the election between Zemmour and Macron.

Zemmour and Le Pen have both jumped. Zemmour appealed to LR members disappointed by Pécresse’s victory to run in the by-elections outside Paris on Sunday.

“I share zokric’s frustrations with his followers,” Zemmour wrote in his open letter. We are so close and there are so many similarities! Le Pen asked for the same thing, criticizing Pécresse as a “Macronist”.

Speaking to Ciotti – who said he would support the new LR leader but immediately warned him that leadership would “win on the right” – Pécresse said he had launched his presidential campaign in the southern city of Saint-Martin-Vésubie. , where he is elected.

He immediately protested Le Pen and Zemmour’s tragic fall, removing them from his rhetoric on Saturday as “cowardly traders” and declaring: “Republican freedom is back.”