The former LR candidate for the presidential election, who did not reach the 5% of the votes necessary to reimburse his campaign expenses, is personally indebted to the tune of 5 million euros.
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Money doesn’t smell, but… Valérie Pécresse, who appealed for donations to reimburse her campaign expenses for the presidential election, refused Nicolas Sarkozy’s contribution, says a source Les Républicains at France Televisions. The former head of state had made a transfer of 2,000 euros to him, far from the maximum amount (4,600 euros) that an individual can give for the financing of a campaign. But the former LR presidential candidate rejected the payment.
This is further proof of the degraded relations between Valérie Pécresse and Nicolas Sarkozy. The former head of state had refused to explicitly support his former minister before the first round. He had not answered his calls either and whistles had sounded at the mention of his name during a meeting of Valérie Pécresse. After the bitter defeat of the latter, Nicolas Sarkozy had urged voters to vote Emmanuel Macron in the second round, without a word for the candidate of his party.
With only 4.78% of the votes collected in the first round, Valérie Pécresse did not reach the 5% threshold necessary to obtain reimbursement of her campaign expenses. Yet she had “personally indebted to the tune of five million euros”, she revealed the day after her defeat. She therefore launched an appeal for donations, which collected “about 2.5 million euros”said Christian Jacob, the president of LR, on Sunday May 1. “The party will bring eight million euros for a campaign that had cost 15 million”he specified.