“The right is not for sale” | EUROtoday

While the union of the rights is making headway amongst sure members of the Republicans (LR), Valérie Pécresse shows, Sunday December 14, in an opinion printed by La Tribune Sundayhis opposition to an alliance with the National Rally (RN).

“After a decade of visual navigation, France needs a course and a compass, not a weather vane which would lead it to shipwreck”decides the LR candidate for the 2022 presidential election, who failed beneath 5% within the first spherical.

The president of the Ile-de-France area, for whom the Republican proper “must get back together”sends the RN and La France insoumise (LFI) again to again, in response to her “two sides of the same impasse”.

“LFI is France divided and ruined”she writes. As for the RN, it hides below “the clothes of the savior” A “economic program modeled on that of the far left”, “incessant pirouettes on Europe” And “a troubled fascination with [le président russe Vladimir] Putin and [son homologue américain Donald] Trump ».

“To ally with the RN is to step aside”

Relevant with out naming them that ” some “ in his camp “toy with the idea of ​​an alliance with the National Rally”Valérie Pécresse warns: “There is nothing to expect from those who despise the Republican right, its values ​​and its history. To ally yourself with the RN is to step aside. It is to become his auxiliaries, his guarantee of respectability”.

“The right is not for sale! It does not exist to serve as a stepping stone for others. It must exist to restore France”she continues by calling for an alliance from the primary spherical of the presidential election between “former UMP, Gaullists, centrists, members of Horizons” And “disappointed with macronism”.

Valérie Pécresse’s place comes a couple of days after the discharge of the ebook A prisoner’s diary by Nicolas Sarkozy, by which the previous president believes that “the path of reconstruction” from the appropriate “can only pass through the broadest possible spirit of gathering, without exclusion and without anathema”.

Another LR regional president, Xavier Bertrand (Hauts-de-France), for his half reaffirmed his battle “against the extremes” : “Neither LFI nor National Rally”.