Valérie Pécresse, who completed 4.78% on April 10, launched a call to donations on Monday to finance an estimated 15 million euros campaign.
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The room where the Strategic Council of the Party The Republicans (LR), Vaugirard rue, in Paris, is full to crack when Christian Jacob’s phone, Monday, April 11 in the morning. The day before, the results of the first round of presidential polls left the ribbed party. Never has its history had made a score as low: 4.78% of the vote. The Strategic Committee convened by the party president must decide the thorny question after. But the candidate, Valérie Pécresse, is slightly late. All are waiting for it. It is precisely she calls on Mr. Jacob. She warns it to improvise a micro stretched in the lobby and that it will appeal to donations. In the room, everyone is watching, nobody knew.
It is for Valérie Pécresse, as for the party, the time is serious. In the aftermath of such a defeat, it is the time of the political accounts, but also financial. Below 5% of the vote, the public treasury does not reimburse advanced money for the campaign. In the lobby of the building of Vaugirard Street, Valérie Pécresse seems worried: “The financial situation of my campaign is now critical,” she argues. “We have not reached the 5% that would allow us to get the 7 million of the state we expect,” she adds. Republicans can not deal with these expenses. “And to insist: “I am indebted personally up to 5 million euros.”
To try to fill the deficit, Valérie Pécresse then launches a “national call to donations”, which will be possible directly on the website that his teams had created for the campaign. It will, explain, of the survival of LR and, “beyond, of the Republican Right”. As the accounts being underway, the campaign team tells not to know the exact amount of the candidate’s expenses but ensures that they are below the ceiling of 16.8 million euros: around 15 million euros.
“Party finances are not threatened”
Within LR, one would still be able to specify it: “The party finances are not threatened,” says Daniel Fasquelle, Mayor of the Touquet-Paris-Plage and Treasurer of the training.
In 2017, after the defeat of François Fillon, the former member had been mandated to clean up the accounts of an exsangue party, accustomed too long to lead great train. The sale of the siege of 15 e arrondissement of Paris, whose training is tenant today, the hunt to the slightest superfluous expense and a strict rationalization of what had to be allowed to carry out to his mission. In anticipation of presidential and legislative campaigns, the elected of the Hauts-de-France set aside 8 million euros. He gave $ 5.5 million to the candidate. And he has loaned 2.5 million euros, whom he intended to recover.
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