The President of the Ile-de-France region won the second round against Eric Ciotti, by 60.95% of the votes versus 39.05%. The culmination of a “methodical” campaign, where she refused to be beaten in advance.
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Long the very hypothesis of his candidacy has made debate. Do not hear her about talking more than that, a lot, the Republicans party (LR), said it dead. Others, once his statement made in July, reproached him a lack of determination, unlike Xavier Bertrand who, himself kept repeating his desire.
However, it is well Valérie Pécresse which has been designated the right candidate for the presidential election of 2022 by LR activists on Saturday 4 December. Those who know her qualify for “methodical”, “organized”, who takes things from one after the other, like a “hedge race”: a good student side that allowed him to collect 60.95% of the votes Second round of the congress. The member for the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, another finalist, got 39.05% of the vote.
Two figures that no one, or almost, had seen come. Two figures that needed, eliminating Thursday in the first round the favorites Michel Barnier and Xavier Bertrand.
For this congress, the President of the Ile-de-France region has led an offensive campaign, refusing to beat in advance. After a productive summer where she surprised her world, even succeeding in tightening the gap with Xavier Bertrand, she had ended up at the beginning in a fake dish. Stuck between the President of the Hauts-de-France, favorite of the polls, and the former European Commissioner Michel Barnier, always remained faithful to the party.
A chiraquine
Especially, like all the pretenders to the investiture LR, she had to face without expecting the phenomenon Eric Zemmour who scraped in the autumn politics and saturated the media space on the right and on the far right. “Do not worry, we will win,” she then launched his teams.
54 years old, the former Minister of Higher Education and the Budget During the Quinquennium of Nicolas Sarkozy had left LR in 2019, the next day of the European elections, denouncing the party’s rectitude and narrowing “. At the time by Laurent Wauquiez. However, the Founder of Free! In 2017, never broke the links with his political family. She has not ceased to send signs to gathering and “fidelity”, when he returned, at the end of August, Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), or by participating in the meeting of young people Republicans at the Paris Floral Park, early September.
Favorable to the unique and unitary application of the right and center, the one who was initially a fervent defender of an open primary finally agreed to comply with the only will of the LR activists. To date to announce, in October, his return to the party.
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