Valérie Pécresse requires a proper and middle main after the municipal elections | EUROtoday

Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains), president of the Ile-de-France area, referred to as, in an interview with ParisianSaturday February 14, to the group of a main of the correct and the middle the day after the municipal elections, inviting his camp to study the teachings of its failure within the 2022 presidential election.

“I have the impression that no lessons, neither from the 2022 primary nor from the presidential campaign that followed, have been learned. And I’m still in a good position to talk about it! »affirmed the one who had collected 4.78% of the votes in the last presidential election. “Imagining holding a primary next fall, like in 2022, would be a major mistake because you cannot improvise a presidential candidate in three months”says the previous Republican candidate. According to her, the “ideal scenario” is a “primary which begins the day after the municipal elections, with a deadline before the summer”.

The LR supervisor pleads for it to be “as open as possible, because that is what gives popular momentum”. According to her, candidates should signal a constitution “values ​​of the right and the center” which incorporates the refusal of an alliance with the far proper, and the dedication to rally behind the victorious candidate.

Unlike Laurent Wauquiez, the chief of the LR deputies, she says she is against Sarah Knafo’s participation in such a main, recalling that the Reconquest MEP sits within the European Parliament with the German far proper.

Asked about Edouard Philippe’s refusal to take part in a main, Ms. Pécresse believes that he “there will be strong political pressure”. “When we want to run for the highest office, we don’t fear an open primary”she tackles.

As for the announcement, Thursday, of the candidacy of LR boss Bruno Retailleau for 2027, she believes that it’s a “useful clarification” Who “will allow us to provoke an important reflection on (…) the choice technique of the candidate of the correct and the middle ».