She is the first woman invested by the French right in a presidential campaign. Saturday, December 4, members Republicans offered Valérie Pécresse a comfortable victory (60.95% of the votes) against Eric Ciotti (39.05%). A step further in the long course of the President of the Ile-de-France region, 54 years old and already old road – will the expression be popularized in the feminine? – of politics.
Far from the warm election campaigns, the name of Valérie Pécresse appears for the first time in Le Monde on February 2, 1997, associated with the cozy atmosphere of the Council of State. The highest administrative jurisdiction “examines the case of undiagnosed trisomy,” says Rafaële Rivais. With this delicate question: who compensates?
While the Nice Hospital, condemned to pay a monthly annuity to the child, contests a judgment of the Lyon Court of Appeal, Valérie Pécresse, Government Commissioner, presents the situation and renders his opinion. First, partially granted the hospital: “We do not think that a child can complain about being born as it was designed by his parents, even if he has an incurable disease or a genetic defect, since medical science offered no treatment to cure it in utero, “she explained, writes Rafaële rivet in her report. But if the government commissioner does not want the abolition of the annuity, it suggests that it be transferred to the parents.
Far from the media lights
On July 7, 1998, a simple brief announces his appointment as “Chairmanship to the Presidency of the Republic”. Readers can learn that it is “graduated from the School of Higher Commercies and the National School of Administration”. This position at the Elysée, where Valérie Pécresse works, far from the media lights, on the new technologies, the politics of the city and the reform of the state, will eventually be worth it the nickname “baby chirac”.
In 2002, when it goes to the conquest of the 2 e riding of the Yvelines, with the blessing of the deputy RPR outgoing, it is described as “a protégé of Mr. Chirac” by the Journalists Christophe de Cheenay and Jean-Pierre Dubois. Herself assumes the label, facing his opponent, General Philippe Morillon, UDF candidate. “Morillon against me, it’s Bayrou-Chirac’s fight,” she says. At 34, she becomes a member of Parliament and is involved in the protection of childhood.
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