Laurent Wauquiez assures Valérie Pécresse of “his total support”

Nominated as presidential candidate by Les Républicains (LR) activists, Valérie Pécresse will be able to count, during the campaign, on Laurent Wauquiez, with whom she had disagreements in the past.

“I have always said that I would be totally committed to the personality who would emerge victorious from our congress. My support for Valérie will therefore be total ”, said LR president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in an interview with Sunday newspaper December 12.

“I am getting involved in this campaign alongside Valérie Pécresse with a single obsession: to stop the French decline and find hope”, because “What we are experiencing is the decadence of our country, and has been for years”, he says.

The LR candidate left the party in 2019, in the aftermath of the European elections, by denouncing the right “Shrinkage” some movement. “I’m not going to pretend: we have had disagreements at times”, admits the one who had just resigned from the presidency of the party at the time. “But you don’t build by looking to the past. I am not guided by resentment ”, he assures.

“Eric Zemmour cannot win”

For the former spokesperson for the government of François Fillon (2007-2008), it is ” essential “ than “Valérie Pécresse remains faithful to the program on which she was elected” at the LR Congress, based, according to him, on two fundamental themes: work and French identity.

“The French have not lost the meaning of work, it is work that has lost its meaning”, says the former secretary of state in charge of employment. “Because the difference between what you earn by working and what you earn by staying at home is too small. Valérie Pécresse’s desire to regain this gap is therefore fundamental. “

Laurent Wauquiez also rents the “Great clarity” of Valérie Pécresse concerning her “Desire to regain pride and a common French identity”. In hollow, the former minister of higher education admits that the presence of Eric Zemmour in the presidential campaign is a competition that could lose the candidate LR: “Eric Zemmour cannot win. Voting for him will have only one consequence: to allow Macron to continue the policy he is leading and which, however, a majority of French people reject ”, he explains.