While they had long opposed the Republicans party, the presidential candidate in the presidential election received the support of the President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, during a displacement in high- Loire, Friday, January 21st.
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They slowly descend the steps of the Cathedral of Puy-en-Velay, from where the pilgrims of Compostela leave. Then they stop. Laurent Wauquiez turns to Valérie Pécresse and tends him a dark wood stick, adorned with a scallop shell. A pilgrim staff, for the long road of the candidate the Republicans (LR) to the presidential election. And guaranteed goodwill by the President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, who provided his counterpart of Ile-de-France for his support.
While an icy wind rushes into the city lanes of the city, the two former Ministers of Nicolas Sarkozy were committed to showing that their relationship warmed and display their unit. For the former boss of the party, it was a question of lifting ambiguities, while it is very discreet since the start.
The two enarques, ex-state councilors, have never heard. Their relationship became heated in the aftermath of the European of 2019, when Pécresse left the party then led by Wauquiez, criticizing the right orientations of LR. She had denounced a party “padded from the inside, in his organization, but also in his ideas”. And worried about a “narrowing”. Three years later, everything has changed: The President of Ile-de-France has taken over his map, oriented his campaign to “right all” and needs Wauquiez, popular with members.
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The candidate who has gathered his ex-rivals of the Congress, Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti, Michel Barnier and Philippe Juvin – before seeing at Eric Zemmour the ex vice-chairman of the party, the member Guillaume Peltier – , has an even too fragile position in the polls, elbow with Navy Le Pen, to be able to do without this support, even not devoid of backguards. “We will win together, it’s me who tells you,” she assured when he arrived in Haute-Loire, while greeting “a great region of the region”, to whom she entrusted the presidency of his support committee.
For his part, Wauquiez, who decided this summer not to be a candidate in 2022 but brigged the leadership of the right for the afterwards, wants to avoid any trial in disloyalty, so as not to damage an image. attempt to restore. “Valérie has made a very important startup of campaign, which consisted of turning the pages of the past, he raised. I will be entirely hired at his side.” Wauquiez and Pécresse visited the cathedral and contemplated, in the distance, the Jelly campaign of Haute-Loire and the Black Virgin. “I’m sure you have more than for your marriage …”, launched the second to the first, while they went down the stairs, pressed by a cloud of photographers.
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