It is a figure of the right who announced his rallying to Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with Le Parisien, Eric Woerth, president (LR) of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, announces that he supports Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election and not Valérie Pécresse, the candidate Les Républicains.
“I deeply believe that a second term for Emmanuel Macron would be an opportunity for France.“, he explains, criticizing the party line Les Républicains; “I do not subscribe to LR’s speech, which describes a France that is not quite mine, a nostalgic France, curled up on itself“. Nicolas Sarkozy’s former minister denounces “the chase between the candidates“to the primary of the right”on security topics, which are important but cannot on their own constitute a global project“.
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Biting statements that show a real schism. And that might be shared by other LR executives. This support could thus be the first of a series of right-wing defections.
“When are you joining us?“: in the corridors of the National Assembly, several deputies The Republicans claim to have received the call from the macronist foot in recent months, like Eric Woerth. “The far right will have a good time saying that there are bridges between Macron and us“, annoys a tenor LR.
Especially since the rallies will continue, assure those close to the Head of State: others will follow at the end of February at the beginning of March, mayors of medium-sized towns, it is said.
As on the PS side a few days ago, at LR, we fear that this is only the beginning: “There are disappointed people who have no place at Pécresse“, assures an elected official. “The curves of the polls with Zemmour will intersect, it will create excitement“predicts, for his part, a deputy. What to do until then?”I do not see” concedes the same.
Still, https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-brief-politique/presidentielle-2022-pecresse-sous-pression-al-approach-de-son-grand-meeting_4928595.html Valérie Pécresse has a card with play: her big meeting on Sunday, which she refines again and again. An LR frame also poses the challenge: “Either she creates a new breath and she convinces, or it’s going to get really complicated“.