2022 presidential election: Valérie Pécresse wants to “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar” in terms of security – archyde

“I want to clean the quarters”: words with a strong connotation, deliberately close to the shocking formula used by the former head of state Nicolas Sarkozy in 2005, which has remained in political annals. In this presidential campaign 2022, Valérie Pécresse, candidate Les Républicains (LR), takes the formula on her own, in a daily interview Provence, outing Wednesday January 5 in the evening. “I’ll take the Kärcher out of the cellar.” It has been ten years and now is the time to use it. It is a question of putting order in the street ”, because “We no longer give an answer to the violence of the new barbarians”, says M^me Pécresse, who will be in Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse on Thursday to talk about safety.

Making authority and security central themes of her presidential campaign, on which she is notably advised by her former congress rival with a right-wing posture, Mr. Ciotti, the president of the Ile-de-France region proposes in particular in this interview to use “Punching brigades, including digital means, the tax authorities, but also the army, in order to secure the areas of intervention”.

A central theme of confrontation in the match with Mr. Macron

In June 2005, just after the death of an 11-year-old boy in front of his home in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), Mr. Sarkozy, the new young minister of the interior, went there and announced his will to “Clean with Kärcher” the city of 4000 where the victim lived. In turn M^me Pécresse wants to mark the opinion with the shock formula and win in the presidential match, in particular against the outgoing President of the Republic, on a central campaign theme.

While Emmanuel Macron must go to Nice on Monday January 10 on the same theme and that members of the presidential majority have continued to criticize Valérie Pécresse in recent weeks, she believes that “If he [M. Macron] runs after the Republican candidate on this theme, it’s good that there is excitement, concern in her camp ”.

“The ‘at the same time’ does not work on security. Macron creates a diversion with his sentences, but when the French open their eyes to his record, they will see a crisis of total authority “, keep attacking M^me Pécresse, before adding: “We have a president who talks constantly, to insult or to seduce. The French know me less, because I act. “

Security is “The first of freedoms”, says the candidate again in this interview, also echoing an expression of the National Rally, which, according to her “Thrives on public powerlessness”. “My political DNA is to do”, she insisted, a formula that she keeps repeating during her campaign.