The President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region assured his “total commitment” the Republican candidate in the presidential election.
Le Monde with AFP
Operation Reunion for Valérie Pécresse and Laurent Wauquiez. The Republicans’ candidate, Valérie Pécresse, is located in Haute-Loire Friday, January 21 to visit Laurent Wauquiez. “Welcoming it here is a symbol of my support and total commitment alongside Valérie”, assured the President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
“I will be totally engaged at his side in this campaign because it’s the only thing that interests me”, he added, pointing out that “the challenge for us is the presidential election” . “We will win together, it’s me who tell you,” said Valérie Pécresse, greeting “a great region of region”. Laurent Wauquiez will have “a pillar role” in his campaign, at the head of the elected support committee, she added in front of a cloud of cameras. This day must allow them to display their unity to “win together the presidential election and turn your backs in the past. The Republicans’ candidate insisted on security in his speech.
Laurent Wauquiez had already promised his commitment in an interview shortly after the investiture of Valérie Pécresse, in December, but this is the first time the candidate, who had returned to Mr. Wauquée a private visit after his victory. Congress, organizes with him a public output.
Indeed, if it has undertaken to visit each of its supports – since Eric Ciotti at the beginning of December until Aurélien Pradied Wednesday -, the poster with Laurent Wauquiez took a particular symbolism, taking into account the past crimson . In June 2019, M me Pécresse had left LR, denouncing a party “padded from the inside, in his organization, but also in his ideas”. Friday, Laurent Wauquiez praised this trip and this visit from Valérie Pécresse, who “made a very important start of the country, which consisted of turning the pages of the past”.
Often seen as a carrier of a liberal vision on the right, the free founder! however, heard in his campaign a very firm tone on the treat, alongside Eric Ciotti. Speaking of “restoring French pride”, promising to intensify the “Charters” of undocumented or to “bring out Kärcher” against offenders, it also displays its willingness to upgrade the work.
If Mr. Wauquiez, who resigned from the head of LR in 2019, waived the presidential election of 2022, he keeps a particular status in the party. For Valérie Pécresse, it is a question of gathering the most widely possible. The candidate will highlight the unity of the right and the center by going on Saturday to the national councils of the centrists, Paris, and the Union of Democrats and Independent (UDI), in Vincennes. The president of the UDI, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, brought him on Friday his support in an interview in Figaro Friday, with the objective that his movement becomes the “moderate leg” of the candidate against the right-hand line of his lieutenant Eric CIOTTI.
In addition to these reunion with the President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, M me Pécresse visited a health house in Dutières, where she has shredded by: “Less paperwork and bureaucracy “,” liberalize the cumul job-retirement “, send” 4,000 young doctors “in areas under-endowed at the end of their studies … Next, always accompanied by Mr. Wauquiez, visit the Cathedral of Puy-en -Velay before a public meeting.