Valérie Pécresse in Campaign in Corrèze, to display his filiation with Jacques Chirac

The Republican candidate in the presidential election went to Brive-la-Gaillarde on Friday, the day after his debate with Eric Zemmour.

Le Monde with AFP

Requined after his tense face-to-face with Eric Zemmour, the Republicans’ candidate (LR), Valérie Pécresse, tried to Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), Friday, March 11, to revive the dynamics of his campaign in chiraquic earth.

Check all smile in the Silab Point Lab, a few kilometers from Brive, the candidate traveled the site, white protection jacket on the back, questioning the employees at length. The opportunity to repeat his ambition to develop the rural territories, according to her, to a great boom after the health crisis: “I want all the territory to be” fiber “[that he has optical fiber to access the Internet] By 2024 and revive a large opening plan of rural territories, “she assured.

The candidate had chosen this new stage of his campaign as a way of displaying his filiation with the former head of the right Jacques Chirac (1995-2007), for lack of receiving the support of his successor Nicolas Sarkozy. A public meeting must be held in the evening with Claude Chirac, the daughter of the ex-deceased president, and with the Christian Christian Jacob, President of LR, and François Baroin, Mayor of Troyes.

In the line of Jacques Chirac, Valérie Pécresse has also been folded in the exercise of the field in a covered market, questioning exhibitors and customers, tasting the ham with truffle, posing with onlookers. “Good area, welcome, we advise you!”, Launched him, funny, a roofer.

“The debate is a marker”, for Christian Jacob

In the aftermath of his cacophonic television debate with Eric Zemmour, the candidate appeared relaxed and determined to launch a new chapter, after a drop period in the polling intentions of the surveys – M me Pécresse is credited by 11.5% in the sixth wave of the survey conducted by Ipsos-Sopra Steria, in partnership with the Sciences Po Political Research Center (CEVIPOF), the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Le Monde.

 Standing Valérie Pécresse at the Gaillard Hall, with Christian Jacob and the Mayor of Brive, Frédéric Soulier (Republicans), Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze), Friday, March 11, 2022.

“The debate is a marker, in seventeen days, ON Will refer to it. In forty-eight hours, something happened, “welcomed Christian Jacob. The candidate LR pushed the nail with Eric Zemmour: “Yesterday, we saw that there was a credible candidate on one side, who has the solutions, and the other a powerful candidate to defend solutions far too extreme “And who” are not funded “.

As for the national rally candidate (NR), Marine Le Pen, who said Friday that the show did “want to debate neither with the one with the other”, Valérie Pécresse the accused of “hiding”. “We can not shove the debate forever, at one point, we have to confront the visions of society, from France, that’s how we allow the French to choose. It takes a draft right break It is the project that the French are waiting, and not the Marine Le Pen project, “she launched.

Valérie Pécresse also – and above all – taking the head of the coming out, for the great favorite and she hopes to face in the second round. “Credibility is on the side of my project that alone presents an alternative to Emmanuel Macron,” she assured meant to wonder: “Do we want a strong France, in order, which puts back Its great public services, which gives its place to rurality? “” Today, there are candidates who refuse the debate because they are stealing from this campaign. But it is the destiny of France that play, “she added.

/Media reports.