In an offensive speech, Friday in Cannet, in the Alpes-Maritimes, the candidate of the party the Republicans tried to forget his Parisian performance.
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The day started on the thread. Five days after his meeting at the Zenith of Paris and the violent criticisms having followed, Valérie Pécresse – sounded, according to several of his supports – resumed, on Friday, February 18, the course of his campaign, in the Alpes-Maritimes. On the port of Cannes, the party candidate the Republicans (LR) stops to greet the passers-by, goes around the sunny terraces, chained the selfies. Immaculate white jacket, resolutely displayed smile. Especially not to appear as a wounded beast, after a weekend of terrible campaign, mined by the taunts – including in its camp -, doubts and a fall in some polls. His entourage denounces a “hunt”.
In his wake, the deputy Eric Paget, faithful of the first hour, recognizes “a complicated moment”. “We are in the way of rebalance, even reconquest,” he continues, observing that, “in this lessee”, “Valérie” shows “Pugnace”. The mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, who receives the fragile candidate, makes the job, too, “For me, the best candidate, it is not the one that will make sleeve effects, but the one who will lead the country well. “
Cannes welcome him politely. But the meeting left traces. “She was uncomfortable, it was embarrassing,” Observe Brigitte, while her husband, Gilles (they did not want to give their names), explains that they are “ex-lr gone at Macron” And that the zenith gives them “not want to come back”. Suddenly, a woman agrees the candidate. Her name is Evelyne, had “five husbands,” voted Fillon and Le Pen in 2017. “Be yourself!”, She urges her, hugging her strongly. Pécresse smiles, thanks the Council. “A meeting does not make the election, what matters is my project, it defends later. I trace my way.”
Maximum pressure
Throughout the day, the candidate LR tries to make good figure. But seems concerned, elsewhere. What does she think? To lower polls? To criticisms barely veiled from his allies, Xavier Bertrand and Jean-François Cope, who distorted himself from a line judged too right-hand, after employment, Sunday, words “great replacement”? Or does she apprehend the meeting she must give in the evening in Cannet in front of 2,000 people, and she knows he will be scrutinized, dissected? When leaving an Alzheimer’s reception center in Antibes, where she met the staff, she stumbles against an obstacle, lacks, before getting back in extremis. On the thread … “She is lucid, philosopher the Mayor Lr of Antibes, Jean Leonetti. She knows she crosses a zone of turbulence.”
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