The candidate of the right suffers from the comparison with his predecessor François Fillon and especially with Emmanuel Macron, still largely supported.
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The heat, at the end of the month of August 2016, makes big drops on the fronts of the entrepreneurs present under the main tent of the annual raout organized by the MEDEF. The end of François Holland’s mandate approaches, the world of the economy came to listen to one by one candidates of what was perceived at the time, as the natural camp of the economy: the right of the Party the Republicans ( Lr). At this game, François Fillon had won the palm, having copiously applauded by economic circles that had largely acclaimed it well before its primary victory.
Five years and a half later, Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the right, found himself also to make a great oral in front of the medef Monday, February 21, in the same way as all his opponents in the presidential race With the exception of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron, who has not yet officially declared. A few days ago, the President of the Ile-de-France region was before the Association of Growth ContractorsPlus. At the beginning of February, it was before Ethic’s medium-sized enterprises that she spoke at the end of an organized meal to listen to him, at the beginning of which she first sent the member for the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti for Represent it. To all these events, reasonable applause, a controlled fervor.
It’s in five years, many things have changed. Countering business community, the right has gone to party that can represent some interest depending on its proposals. Because, within LR, we are aware of it, many patterns still have, after two years of pandemic and restrictions where the government supported the economy at the end of arms, the “chimene ‘eyes” for Emmanuel Macron.
Candidate “Workers”
During the last five, the line did not really build particularly strong links with them. First taken by the President of the Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes Lawrence Region Wauquiez, the party first gave the impression of deterring it, before leaning under the chairmanship of Christian Jacob for a more “social” vision ” Economic issues. Unlike François Fillon, which was surrounded by leading economic figures like Henri de Castries, Valérie Pécresse does not seem to have the same relays. Itself states regularly to be the candidate “of the workers”, to whom it wants to give more purchasing power. Some, in his entourage, recognize that the situation of 2017 where the bosses were very reassembled against François Hollande is incomparable with theirs. The employer harvest of 2022 can not be as easy as François Fillon, they explain.
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