Laurent Wauquiez assures Valérie Pécresse of “its total support”

The President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region says, in the “JDD” he does not want to linger on the disagreements he has known with the candidate LR to the presidential election, especially when she had left The party he presided in 2019.

Le Monde

Nominated for the presidential candidate by the Republicans (LR) activists, Valérie Pécresse can count on, during the campaign, on Laurent Wauquiez with whom she had, in the past, disagreements.

“I always said that I would be fully engaged behind the personality that would come out winner of our congress. My support in Valérie will therefore be total,” said President LR of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in an interview at the Journal du Sunday of December 12

“I pledge in this campaign alongside Valérie Pécresse with a single obsession: stop the French decline and find hope”, because “what we live is the decadence of our country, and this For years, “he says.

The candidate LR had left the party in 2019, the day after the European elections, denouncing the rectitude and the “narrowing” of the movement. “I’m not going to pretend: we have had any disagreements,” admits the one who came at the time, to resign from the presidency of the party. “But we do not build by looking towards the past. I’m not guided by the Rancans,” he says.

“Eric Zemmour can not win”

For the former spokesman of the Government of François Fillon (2007-2008), it is “essential” that “Valérie Pécresse remains faithful to the program on which it was elected” at the Congress LR, according to him, according to him, On two fundamental themes: French work and identity.

“The French did not lose the sense of work, it is the work that lost its meaning,” said former Secretary of State for employment. “For the difference between what is won by working and what we won by remaining at home is too weak. The will of Valérie Pécresse to rewrite this gap is therefore fundamental”.

Laurent Wauquiez also rents the “great clarity” of Valérie Pécresse on his “willingness to find a pride and a French common identity”. In hollow, the former Minister of Higher Education admits that the presence of Eric Zemmour in the presidential campaign is competition that could lose the candidate LR: “Eric Zemmour can not win. Vote for him will not have That a consequence: allowing Macron to pursue the policy it leads and however a majority of French rejects, “he explains.

/Media reports.