With more than 60% of the votes, the President of the Ile-de-France region, designated Sunday by the LR voters as a candidate of the right to the presidential election 2022, will have to gather around her.
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She probably had never known such a welcome. Arrival at 14 hours at the party headquarters The Republicans (LR) Saturday, December 4, Valérie Pécresse has barely able to come down from his car and make the few steps that separated him from the inside of the building with the white walls of the street Vaugirard (Paris 15 e ) Both journalists enclose it with their pickups and cameras. A figure in crimson jacket, inaccessible to the view from which was outside the cloud.
The results had not yet fallen, but everyone suspected the outcome of the second round voting of the members of the LR. The approximately 114,000 sympathizers who voted between Friday and Saturdays have chosen 60.95% to appoint the President of the Ile-de-France region as a candidate of the right by the presidential election of 2022. Eric Ciotti, the member of the Alps- Maritimes, a finalist also at the end of the first round, has gathered 39.05% of the vote.
In the big room of the second floor where the party led its enthroned ceremony, the smiles spread from face face among the supports and the relatives of the candidate. Of her many doubted in recent months or even in recent years. “We held good, we thought even if we were undergoing, sitting in any small on our seats in the assembly, the mockery of the comrades”, joking Saturday the member for Essonne Robin Reda.
Above all, show a gather image
It is surrounded by the two candidates that Christian Jacob, the boss of the Party, proclaimed the results, then immediately giving the floor to Eric Ciotti. Valérie Pécresse waited a few minutes, that other unhappy candidates – Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier and Philippe Juvin – go on stage with her to express themselves. Above all, show a gathering image. Out of the question of suggesting the constituents that the right has fallen through its cross. And too bad if all, especially within the direction, do not necessarily affect the smile of rigor.
Discreet smile but sparkling eyes, Valérie Pécresse started in his speech a little frozen but with clearly the emotion in the voice. “For the first time in his story, General de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy will have a candidate,” she thus launched. Today, “I think of all women,” said François Fillon’s former Minister for Higher Education, before thanking members “for having this audacity” to designate it. In his entourage, and more generally on the right, this argument was brandished on Saturday afternoon.
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