At a public meeting in Vendée, Thursday, the candidate LR to the presidential election, under the fire of the critics since his meeting of the Zenith, in Paris, regretted that some want the “caricature”.
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After a difficult week, Valérie Pécresse moved to the counter-attack, Thursday, February 17, denouncing a “pecresse-bashing”, orchestrated according to her “the macronists” to decindabilize it.
“It seems for a few days that I am the woman to slaughter,” launched the candidate at a public meeting in front of about 600 people in Wet-Le-Captif, in the suburbs of La Roche-sur-Yon . “Some would like to caricature me by making me a portrait that is not mine,” she added, ensuring: “Me, I’m like a vendée sailor, I trace my way.”
The candidate LR had previously shown more precise, denouncing “a polemic mounted”. But “nothing in my speech or in my attitude does not give the” pecresse-bashing “whose victim I have been a victim,” she said during a conversation on the margin of displacement, denouncing “a strategy totally orchestrated by the macronists who want to discredit me “.
“I see in the violence of attacks since January, because I am their only target, the unhealthy game” of the presidential party, “who wants to meet alone against Marine Le Pen,” she added. Emmanuel Macron “wants an election of tacit renewal but I will not let it do,” she promised.
“A phrase diverted from his meaning”
Valérie Pécresse has undergone this week the defection of several members of LR for the benefit of Emmanuel Macron, the murderers’ remarks at Nicolas Sarkozy and, above all, of strong criticism after a meeting judged to be missed by 7,500 people, Sunday, at Zenith from Paris, the first of this magnitude.
The candidate, obviously not comfortable in the exercise, mentioned the “big replacement”, which shocked down in his camp. She has since been a closet at the extreme right. “I am told the opposite of what I’m saying,” she said on Thursday, regretting that the controversy has obscured his “new France” project.
“There were extremely strong measures in my speech, on the school, reindustrialization, the referendum of citizen initiative, rurality, culture … and only comes out a phrase totally diverted from its meaning! C is absurd, “she said.
At its public meeting on Thursday, it took out the outline of this project by describing as “a social gaullist”. She then spent a long time interacting with the room, an interactive format she masters better, answering their questions about housing, youth …
Friday on Eric Ciotti land
This counterattack occurs while the candidate LR is in delicacy in several polls, which place it behind Eric Zemmour: Thursday, an Odoxa study credited it by 12% of the voting intentions (- 7 points compared to December 2021 ), against 14% Eric Zemmour (+ 2) and 18% in Marine Le Pen (+ 1). Other polls situated in a pocket handkerchief with its rivals of extreme right.
Valérie Pécresse swept the subject, promising to lead “a campaign of determination” on the ground, as she did on this weekend: Thursday in Vendée, high place of a Fillonian electorate that could turn to Eric Zemmour, and Friday in the South, where the far right seduces voters.
After a displacement at Mouilleron-en-Pareds (Vendée), the birthplace of Georges Clemenceau and the Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, she has met a long time fishermen and farmers in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie.
Friday, it must hold a new meeting in front of 2,000 people in the Alpes-Maritimes of Eric Ciotti.