Valérie Pécresse on Eric Ciotti’s land for his first campaign trip

For his first campaign displacement, the candidate of the right to the presidential election visits Saint-Martin-Vésubie with Eric Ciotti, an unfortunate finalist of the Congress of the Party Republicans.

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After the victory, the search for the unit on the right. For his first campaign displacement, the candidate the Republicans (LR) in the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, surrendered Monday 6 December in the Alpes-Maritimes, on the lands of Eric Ciotti, two days after his victory against the latter At the Party Congress.

“It was a gesture I wanted to do because Eric made a great campaign, she stressed upon arrival at Nice airport, where she was greeted by the one she has Beat by 61% of the votes to 39% at the Congress Saturday. This line is proud of herself, proud of his values. Eric has a very singular place to play in this campaign. “

After a private lunch in Nice, the two finalists of the primary goes to Saint-Martin-Vésubie, where they will have a wreck in memory of the victims of the Alex Storm of the end of 2020. They will also hold a meeting. public together in the afternoon in Saint-Martin-Vésubie. A sign of unity from M me Pécresse, in opening a week devoted to the “gathering” of the political family, since the candidate should go to the fiefs of his other competitors beaten , and especially Friday at Xavier Bertrand, in the Hauts-de-France. “I want to gather all the sensitivities of the right”, hammers since Saturday the President of the Ile-de-France region.

Ciotti launches his own movement

But this displacement is particularly expected because of the first critics launched on Sunday by M. Ciotti for M me pecresse. “The message that was launched yesterday [Saturday] by Valérie Pécresse was not a good message,” he said after a public meeting. In his viewfinder: an interview at the TF1 JT Saturday night, where the candidate refused to resume some muscular proposals of his ex-rival, as the creation of a “French guantanamo” or the national priority for jobs or the lodging. “We will talk about it tomorrow with Valérie Pécresse, I support it, but I hear that my ideas are forcibly represented, the ideas of a line that intends to be respected,” said the member of the Alpes-Maritimes, who announced. This weekend the creation of his own movement, right!

“Eric Ciotti will obviously have a very special place in my campaign, because it embodies this right not that we must put in the spotlight,” greeted on his side M me Pécresse, Monday morning on France Inter. But, she adds, “my project was chosen, it will not be sweeten and it can be enriched, but not denatured by the proposals of other candidate comrades”. At the same time, his campaign manager, Patrick Stefanini, estimated on BFM-TV that “Eric Ciotti was clumsy using the formula of a” French Guantanamo “.

But in this future campaign for the presidential election, the conference finalist hopes to weigh up to his score of 39%. “Valérie has his project and it is naturally his, but (…) we have to have the strength of right ideas because that’s what the country is waiting,” he argues Monday on France azure. “These are the values ​​of authority, identity and freedom that the French have plebiscidated” in this congress, he said Saturday after a campaign largely focused on insecurity and immigration.

/Media reports.