“Éric Ciotti, we could call him Éric Pécresse” and “Valérie Pécresse, we could call her Valérie Ciotti”, said Amélie de Montchalin, Saturday, December 4 on franceinfo. The name of the candidate of the Republican party in the presidential election will be known at 2:30 p.m., at the end of the second round of the vote of the militants. For the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, the two contenders for the nomination of LR for the presidential election are the representatives “of a right which is shrinking, which is stunted, which is in a spirit of decline, of defeat”.
“Basically”, Éric Ciotti and Valérie Pécresse “are both called Fillon”, tackled Amélie de Montchalin, in reference to the unsuccessful candidate of LR in 2017, who planned to cut the workforce of the public service. “On the state, their ideas are Reagan and Thatcher, it’s the neoliberalism of the 1980s, it’s putting the officials on the chopping block, chopping them up with an ax”, she estimated. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes promises 250,000 job cuts in the public service. The president of the Île-de-France region, she wants to remove nearly 200,000.
“I left the right in 2016 because at one point, she spoke only to herself, more than herself, she was in a spirit of division, of shrinking”, said Amélie de Montchalin, denouncing the “permanent bidding” of his former political family. “Join us”, she said, addressing “voters of the center and the right”. According to her, the presidential majority is “in a spirit of gathering, of going beyond” and “welcome each other when they have ideas because they want to serve their country” who “needs to have a vision of the future that is not decline, revenge and defeat”.
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