Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand promise a presidential campaign “hand in hand”

A week after her election by members of the Les Républicains (LR) party as candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Valérie Pécresse first wants to bring her political family together and knows how much image and words matter. Traveling in the Hauts-de-France region alongside its president, Xavier Bertrand, Friday, December 10, the candidate therefore displayed unity with her defeated opponent in Congress, and promised that they would do “This campaign hand in hand”.

Since Monday, Valérie Pécresse has visited all the other of her competitors for the nomination. After Eric Ciotti, the influential second to the right-handed posture, then Philippe Juvin and Michel Barnier, the president of the Ile-de-France region, ended her tour by visiting Xavier Bertrand in his land. He who had called directly to vote for M^me Pécresse after his defeat in the first round renewed his support on Friday: “I will be fully committed to this campaign” to save her.

“Indispensable” support according to Pécresse

Visit of the LR candidate to the Exotec company in Croix, near Lille, on December 10, 2021.

“All my teams are at the service” of the candidate, said Xavier Bertrand again, “Convinced that the only one who can win [lors de l’élection présidentielle 2022], it’s Valérie Pécresse ”. “With Xavier, we are going to carry out this campaign hand in hand” because “I need him, he knows it”, for her part affirmed the candidate, according to whom the president of Hauts-de-France “Is an extremely powerful asset in this campaign”.

“He will be with me”, ” essential “, she added. Because he has “Two very strong political identity elements” : “Its fight against territorial and social fractures” and his will to “Revalue work” in “A society of meritocracy”.

“It is on these two themes that I will seek him even more”, promised the president of the Ile-de-France region. She also assured that“Emmanuel Macron is beatable, we both have the conviction”.

? Exchanges this morning between @vpecresse and @xavierbertrand in #Lille. The right is united to carry the alternation … https://t.co/iEKYfXdMpZ

– with Valerie (@ Pécresse 2022 ??)

In a campaign, “There is a leader, a political line and I will hold it”, committed M^mePécresse, while explaining that his role was primarily to “To unite”, of “All his family first” before’“To seek out and dialogue with the people of France”. For Xavier Bertrand, “Things go easily” with the candidate “Because we have known each other for years”.

The two political protagonists started their day together in Lille with a breakfast. At the end of the morning, they visited the company Exotec, in Croix, near Lille. They will hold a joint public meeting this afternoon. Valérie Pécresse went to the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, finalist of the primary, to whom she had promised a place on Monday “Singular” in his campaign, before going to visit a Parisian hospital on Tuesday with Philippe Juvin. Thursday, it was Michel Barnier that she visited in his stronghold in Savoy, to visit the silicon factory that the Ferropem group wants to close in La Léchère.

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Attention to its former competitors in Congress which is appreciated within the party, which also sees the good polls multiply for candidate LR. “There is a ‘blast’ effect in the fact that a woman represents us”, rejoiced Wednesday the number 2 of LR, Annie Genevard, according to whom Valérie Pécresse “Don’t let the soufflé fall back” immediately going into the field. “It may be the mistake made in 2016”added M^me Genevard in an allusion to the vacation taken by François Fillon after his victory in the right-wing primary.

The president of Ile-de-France also met LR parliamentarians on Tuesday. “She told us to put energy, dynamism, to believe in it”, reported Wednesday the boss of LR deputies, Damien Abad. With a program that promises to be busy from the start of the mandate, its challenge, “It is to do, not to please. In a five-year term, the first six months are absolutely decisive ”, he explains.

The World with AFP

“Indispensable” support according to Pécresse

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