Valérie Pécresse was expected for her big meeting on February 13, 2022 at the Zenith in Paris. In front of a full house, the winner of the Republican primaries put on a show, having to win as her camp multiplies the rallies on both sides of the political spectrum. The former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy has not officially shown his support for the candidate for the election of next April, a size of the party, Eric Woerth, has decided to join Emmanuel Macron, whose entry into the campaign there is no longer any doubt that Guillaume Peltier has joined the ranks of Eric Zemmour, not to mention the stagnant polls. In this complex situation, Valérie Pécresse can count on the support of her pillars: her husband and her three children. She paid tribute to them during her meeting.
“It seems that happy families have no history. So mine was, but with these trials that every family must overcome. She also received beatings, of rare violence. Blows that were actually meant for me. So these scars, I won’t tell you about them, because they belong only to me. With this modesty, I will not compromise, because it is my way of protecting those I care about the most. And I know, that you will understand me. These ordeals built me. They have reinforced this part of humanity, without which there is no real leader. So my friends, I would never have come this far without the support and the love of Jérôme, my husband, and my children Baptiste, Clément and Emilie“, declares Valérie Pécresse on the platform, between two sips of water. If the oratory exercise does not seem obvious for the president of the Ile-de-France region, she gives a lot of energy to her words for her family: “27 years of love, as Brel would say, is mad love. Thanks Jerome. Thanks to you children, I am so proud of what you have become.“
Her family, her pillar, but her husband Jérôme Pécresse is also a source of dispute. CEO of General Electric (GE) Renewable Energy, he has an impressive professional career but is accused by Republican critics of being a source of conflict of interest. The question then arises of the role of her husband if she is elected. In the pages of magazines SheValérie Pécresse explained her position: “The reflection is in progress. So far, we have conducted our professional lives in a completely airtight manner. This is undoubtedly one of the keys to the success of our couple. Jérôme is an environmental industrialist. He has led his career in global groups. It is based in France but its branch achieves 97% of its turnover abroad. (…) NOTWe have never lived in ministries to preserve the balance of our children. There, for reasons of security and availability, we should live at the Élysée. So yes, the role of my husband remains to be defined. This would indeed be a radically new situation.“