A pro-business woman challenges the President of the Republic on her favorite field: the economy. This could be summarized the effect of Valérie Pécresse’s surprise qualification on Saturday, December 4th. Designated by the members The Republicans (LRs) to bear the colors of the republican line to the presidential election of 2022, the President of the Ile-de-France region is, of all the adversaries of the Head of State, the one who resembles him the most: she followed a course of excellence, speaks several languages, wants, like him, attract the talents on the European and international scene, his name is clearly identified because, on the big market of attractiveness, the Ile-de-France heavy weighs.
Their compatibility is such that the old juppéist has long been considered as a possible taking of war, a possible postulant in Matignon, what was heavily mistaken. The chiraquian, openly converted to Fillonian, has given himself the mission of shopping outside France “the progressing” that argues Emmanuel Macron. She wants to recollate the pieces of a straight line that was unfairly dispossessed from her victory in 2017. All with this zest of pride that is allowed by: if she was elected, would she not be the first president of the French Republic?
The irruption in the campaign of this vengeful clone has the effect of energizing the phase of the balance sheet in which the troops of Emmanuel Macron, without great media echo so far. It is no longer a question of defending, measured after measurement, the acquis of the five-year old but to prove that “the exceeding” of the left-right cleavage, presented in 2017 as the way to blow up the locks, is not just one straw fire.
A president who “crams the cashier”
The candidate attacks strong. She qualifies the quinquennate of “almost nothing”, points the abortive reform of pensions, describes the outgoing president as a seducer, animated for the sole concern to “please”. It opposes its willingness to “do” around a liberal project, as in 2017, to reduce the debt, back down the retirement age, carve in the staff of the public service. In defense, the macronists struggle to stabilize their “progressing”. Four years after its advent, this exceeded ideology was used to accompany the cornerstones. The propensity of Emmanuel Macron to use, at the end of the term, the budget weapon to extinguish the departures of social fire accredited the thesis of the opportunism rather than that of the obstinate transformation of the country, which was the central promise of 2017.
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