Valérie Pécresse, candidate for the Les Républicains party in the 2022 presidential election, was the guest of the 8:30 a.m. franceinfo presidential special on Wednesday April 6, four days before the first round of the ballot. She answered questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
Presidential: “The only possible union of rights is around me”
“The only possible union of rights is around me”said Valérie Pécresse, when she was questioned about comments made by Éric Zemmour a few minutes earlier on France Inter: “I will be in the second round and on the 25th [avril] in the morning, I will be either President of the Republic or Leader of the Opposition and I will finally make this reconciliation of rights that no one wants to do, neither Marine Le Pen, nor Mrs. Pécresse”said the Reconquest candidate!
According to her, “today there is a division of the extreme right on one side, with an Éric Zemmour who will call for Marine Le Pen to vote and who will hold meetings with Marine Le Pen, and there is a real government right”whom she says she embodies and “of which Emmanuel Macron is afraid”. She took the opportunity to “to thank” the former LR presidential candidate, François Fillon, for his “support” reaffirmed on Monday. This support is not insignificant, insofar as the vote of the Fillonist voters of 2017 is disputed on the right.
“Total impunity” in the Jeremie Cohen case
For Valerie Pécresse, “The Jeremie Cohen Affair” is indicative of “the total impunity that the government has organized and which is part of the balance sheet that Emmanuel Macron does not want to account for”. This 31-year-old young man, of the Jewish faith and suffering from an invisible handicap, “was probably attacked by a gang of drug dealers”, said the candidate Les Républicains (LR) for the presidential election. In a video shot by a witness, we see him being hit by several people a few minutes before being fatally hit by a tram in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) but the perpetrators of this attack have not yet been identified. .
“I don’t know if the anti-Semitic character will be recognized for this act”, also declared Valérie Pécresse, while the public prosecutor of Bobigny estimated on Tuesday that it was too early to say. One thing is certain, for her, “the new anti-Semitism in a certain number of neighborhoods in France exists”. “It is a reality against which we must fight step by step, it starts at school”she insisted.
War in Ukraine: Vladimir Putin will have to “answer for his crimes”
Vladimir Putin is “a war criminal, a dictator” who should “to answer for his crimes”estimated Valérie Pécresse. “Sure” that the images of Boutcha, in Ukraine, “are true”she assured. “The International Criminal Court will have to take it up”she pointed out.
The LR candidate denounces the positions of the far right and the far left which “do not want to condemn” Vladimir Putin as dictator “because they are fascinated by him”. She judges that the two camps have “discredited to preside over France”when they hope to make the Russian leader an ally again after the war or when they question the veracity of the images of the massacre of civilians in Boutcha.