Valérie Pécresse, a last straight line in Lyon

The candidate the Republicans in the presidential election held, Thursday, April 7, his last campaign meeting, surrounded by a large number of parties’ frameworks.

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Valérie Pécresse is a woman of habits. It has a nice raining in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and more precisely in Lyon, where it has decided to hold its last public meeting, Thursday, April 7 at night, out of the question for it not to make a trip on the ground beforehand. And what does it matter if the message of the day is difficult to detect. The Republican Party candidate (LR), accompanied by the Laurent Wauquiez Region Chair, decided to visit a car equipment company in the Mâcon region before going to a Beaujolais vineyard. Officially it was a question of talking about relocation first and purchasing power then. A glass of wine by hand alongside the operator of an area of ​​Belleville-en-Beaujolais (Rhône), the candidate tried to bind the two: “I want to reconcile eternal France and the new France. Modernity and Tradition. Here you are emblematic from that. And the company Saint Jean Industries too. “

In reality, it was mainly a question of throwing up his last forces in a battle she knows lost, despite the official denials of the campaign team and elected officials. A fight of which she still hopes to go out more honor than what the polls predict him. At this point, if we believe the opinion of opinion, Valérie Pécresse oscillates between the fourth and fifth rank, behind the extreme right candidate Eric Zemmour. So far from this qualification in the second round whose party the Republicans (LR) dreamed for five years.

Clearing Litanie

She expected too long in vain the support of former president Nicolas Sarkozy launched, smiling, under an umbrella in Laurent Wauquiez: “True friends come when it rains.” The “friends”, there are Several Thursday evening at the Public Meeting of Lyon, who saw more frameworks from the party than usual. Last meetings oblige. The presidents of the groups in the National Assembly and the Senate, Damien Abad and Bruno Retaileau, the former European Commissioner Michel Barnier, but also the MEP Brice Hortefeux and, of course, Mr. Wauquiez, were present. “In the trials, the talents wake up. You had the courage of the truth,” greeted Bruno Retail in an attempt at a compliment that would rather the assessment of defeat and encouragement for the future. “We love you as you are,” also entrusted Michel Barnier, as to comfort the candidate. A Clearing Litanie pursued by Laurent Wauquiez who, after quoting Cyrano de Bergerac, turned to his candidate: “From Panache, the policy needs it in this period desperately sad, Valérie, you had candy.” / p>

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