Presidential 2022: In Pécresse campaign, a cumbersome well Eric Ciotti

After the Zenith’s failed meeting, several heavy party weights criticized the supposed influence of the member, ubiquitous with the candidate. Response of the person concerned: “The fact that I weigh on the line is fantasized.”

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He must lengthen the step to follow it. On January 14, in Athens, Valérie Pécresse climbs four to four the hill of the Muses, in front of the Parthenon, it is difficult to follow. Eric Ciotti, girded with a long black coat, puts his, he sneak, quickly, quickly, gets up at his level and does not give it up. Be always next to the candidate on the photo.

Since the beginning of the campaign, the member of the Alpes-Maritimes is omnipresent, in any case visually. In the aftermath of the Zenithde Paris, missed on the form and controversied on the merits, several heavy goods of the party have criticized the supposed influence of the Congress Finalist (LR) on the candidate, who employed without quotation marks the expressions ” Great replacement “and” French papers “, borrowed from the far right.

Monday morning, at a meeting at HQ, the enemy brothers yesterday, Xavier Bertrand and Jean-François Cope, have prompted Valérie Pécresse to free himself from influences and to stay herself. The same evening on BFM-TV , the mayor From Meaux reiterated its criticism, targeting more precisely Eric Ciotti and those for whom “porosity with Zemmour is not a problem”. “It’s not the candidate’s line,” he insisted, reminiscent of the need to go to the greatest number, and no longer mere adherents. “The project should not be that of Eric Ciotti but that of Valérie Pécresse”, presses the member Julien Dive (Aisne), close to Xavier Bertrand, who regrets the use of the words “big replacement”.

Pécresse “Needs anyone to show off”

The intention does not intend to play the scapegoats, the day after the failed meeting. He assured not read the speech before the Zenith, what the entourage of Pécresse confirms. And defends oneself to exercise the slightest ideological hold on “Valérie”, “not influenced”. “The fact that I weigh on the line is fantasized, swears. She does not need anyone to be firm on the treat.”

In the aftermath of the meeting, the member dried the strategic committee meeting at HQ, to boast on BFM-TV the right-hand content of the Zenith speech. This line would be, to believe it, the only one able to open the way in the second round. “What I think is shared by 35% of the French,” he says to the world, adding the voting intentions for Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. “The country is right”, “he summarizes.

The one who suffered from being a long caricature in “gun holder” of the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, of which he was the collaborator, taken his new status, Nibe of Light. In the aftermath of the primary, he peepped up with satisfaction the popularity surveys in which he recorded flattering scores on the right. “A few points only from Nicolas Sarkozy …” He repeated, as if he himself had trouble believing him.

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