Gathering her political family, “that’s what Valérie Pécresse is doing today” according to UDI mayor Jean-Philippe Dugoin-Clément

Mayor UDI of Mennecy (Essonne), vice-president of the Île-de-France region, Jean-Philippe Dugoin-Clément supports Valérie Pécresse for the presidential election of 2022. Asked about a possible turn to the right of the right, he declares than “When you aspire to the highest office, to the presidential office, you bring together your political family. Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in their time gathered from the right of the right to the center, to the progressives. They brought together sovereignists and liberals. When you want to govern France, you don’t divide, you unite and that’s what Valérie Pécresse is doing today”, he believes on the 11 p.m. set of franceinfo on Sunday January 23.

French youth no longer seem to travel to vote, with notably 82% abstention among those under 35 during the last regional elections. Jean-Philippe Dugoin-Clément explains that you have to meet them and talk to them. “The reality is that very often young people are not politically engaged. We see politics through the media and that’s not what they want. I think that young people will move when they know people, when they know them in real life, when they know them in real world”, he says. He recalls that Valérie Pécresse wants in particular “Create a national bank to lend to young people, to help them get started in life”.