less than a month of the presidential election, the candidate LR listed, Monday, during a press conference the priorities of his program if elected.
Le Monde
Four “commitments” and twelve “flagship measures” to revive an application for a sentence. In difficulty in the surveys for several weeks, and especially since its failed meeting in Paris mid-February, the candidate the Republicans (LR), Valérie Pécresse officially presented his presidential project, Monday, March 14, without yet announced to new measure.
She promised “a reconstruction” of France “more just with four commitments” on the power of the country, authority, sustainable prosperity and the social pact. M me Pécresse put in front of A synthesis document Twelve” flagship measures “: 16,000 recruitments in justice, introduction of immigration quotas, 10% increase in wages, Priority to French and mathematics at school, 120 billion euros for the ecological transition, return of universal family allowances or sending 4,000 doctors in health homes … its project promises “twice as much savings” (84 billion euros) as expenditure (42 billion) and “account back to 2027 to 3% of the deficit”.
Wishing to “rebuild a sustainable prosperity”, she warned: “We will have to work more, spend better and less public money”, with a pension reform “at 65 years”, like Emmanuel Macron, and the deletion 200,000 staff positions. To release the work, it advocates a “true bouquet of purchasing power” and has repeated its willingness of a 10% net wage up to 2,800 euros.
“Surprise”
Despite the doubts and critics internally, the candidate once again posted his optimism on Monday less than a month of the presidential election. “I will be the surprise of the second round by the power and credibility of my project,” she claimed to praise her program, only “credible alternative to Emmanuel Macron”. “If the French want someone trust to make a brave project of reforms, do not have to copy, but the original,” she added, promising to “make the powerful reforms that the right wanted to do in 2017 “. These “have not been done during the Fifteennial of Emmanuel Macron,” she added.
At the elbow-to-elbow in the surveys with Eric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, or Jean-Luc Mélenchon for a qualifying in the second round, the President of the Ile-de-France region regretted during this conference Press that the NR candidate refuses to debate with her. “When we escape the debate, it is probably we are afraid of it, I’m not afraid of the debate,” said M me pecresse. “I managed to demonstrate against Eric Zemmour his proximity to Vladimir Putin, his zero immigration slogan and his impotence to enforce the measures he wants to put in place,” she argues.
“Pathetic”
But the candidate RN wants to debate only with Emmanuel Macron, or the Prime Minister Jean Castex. “Given our electoral level [in the RN], we will not discuss with Valérie Pécresse, nor with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, nor with Eric Zemmour. We agree to debate with Emmanuel Macron, or failing with the Prime Minister, Jean Castex The representative of the executive, who would then be accounting for the assessment of Emmanuel Macron, “explained to the France-Presse Agency the entourage of the candidate Monday, confirming information from the daily Le Parisien.
In the north, Friday, M me Le Pen found “pathetic” the debate held on the day before between Eric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse, deploring that they did not speak of “the terrible aggravation of purchasing power”. “It does not want to debate with neither,” she added, seeing in their game “two right leaders who would fight the corpse of the right”.