The MEP, former Minister of the Interior and support of Valérie Pécresse for the 2022 presidential election, was the guest of 8:30 am franceinfo, Monday, December 27, 2021.
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Brice Hortefeux (LR), former Minister of the Interior, MEP and support of Valérie Pécresse for the presidential election was the guest of 8:30 am franceinfo, Monday, December 27, 2021. He answered questions from Céline Asselot and Jean-François Achilli.
The fifth wave of Covid-19 and Omicron
While the number of contaminations peaked this weekend, Brice Hortefeux, believes that the government should have taken “restrictions” additional by taking the example of the Netherlands or Germany. According to him, the executive was wrong to “bet everything on vaccination”.
Presidential campaign
Do major meetings like that of Eric Zemmour still have their place in the midst of an epidemic upsurge? “I think it’s over”, replied the former Minister of the Interior. The political battle will take place “in the media, particularly in the news channels. It can be debates, expressions, in front of journalists and citizens. Also in the written press and on social networks”, he defended.
Valérie Pécresse, “only alternative” to Macron
Valérie Pécresse, LR presidential candidate, is she exactly at ease on TikTok? “She knows social networks perfectly well, she is more of her time than me”, judge Brice Hortefeux. “She showed that she was very good. You can have all the artifices of communication, if you don’t have the background there is nothing”. According to him, the president of the Ile-de-France region embodies the rally of the right: “It is a rediscovered unit which gives pleasure “. “The only alternative to Emmanuel Macron is Valérie Pécresse”, concluded the MEP.