Shortly after Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the presidential elections on April 24, 2022, journalists from Release Charlotte Chaffanjon and Dominique Albertini published, first online, the book Macron 2 – The secrets of a re-election (editions of the Archipelago). With this book, they retrace the presidential campaign until the announcement of the re-election of the president with 58.5% of the vote. “The story varies little [de celui publié dans Libération], explains Dominique Albertini. But we produce material, additional analysis, conversations, interviews that show a lesser-known aspect of the campaign“, explained Dominique Albertini to France Culture. This is how we can read exciting “off”, not only around the Head of State but also on his opponents, the members of the Republicans Rachida Dati and Valérie Pécresse, as spotted Gala.
With 4.75% of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, Valérie Pécresse achieved a disastrous score, fifteen years after the glorious victory of her party and Nicolas Sarkozy. In her own camp, the president of the Ile-de-France regional council was not spared, in particular by Rachida Dati who supported her, however, until the end. In the book Macron 2, the authors return to the relationship between the two influential women. They report in particular the statements of the former Minister of Justice in the spring of 2021, before the former right-wing candidate runs for President.
“She always looks down on people. In a meeting, I said to her: ‘Valérie, stop talking to us like servants!’ And she replies: ‘Ah yes, it’s true, you’re right!’“, had confided Rachida Dati, adding that many personalities of the party thought the same.At LR, they don’t even want her to come to the nomination committee, she would get cans thrown in her face“, she continued. In 2020, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement spoke in Tea Times about a possible candidacy for the Elysée, remarks on which she returned in this new work: “Back then, it felt like anyone could be [candidat]. So, at some point, why would I be less legitimate than Pécresse? I wanted to see the reaction of the journalist.” Emphasizing that Valérie Pécresse was considered a “evidence” by their peers, she regretted arousing little enthusiasm, even contempt: “While me, it’s: ‘Ah well, the gypsy, there?‘”
During this presidential campaign, Zohra’s mother in any case caused a sensation by her positions in all sincerity. Assuming her choices, affirming her ideas and defending her principles, Rachida Dati stands out in an environment where the language of wood prevails.