Valérie Pécresse won this Saturday, December 4 the primary of the Republicans against Eric Ciotti with 60.95% of the votes of the members. Right-wing elected officials from Corrèze welcome this appointment. Frédéric Soulier is a lifelong supporter in the Pécresse camps. The mayor of Brive necessarily satisfied with the result: “She is a woman of decision. She goes in the direction of French history and will perhaps become the first head of state at the head of our country. It is also the result of her work, of her action.”
Corrèze, home base
Valérie Pécresse has a real link with this department. Since 2017, the LR presidential candidate has been organizing her political return to the city of Briviste each year. It is “a land of refuge” had even declared the one who is also president of the Île-de-France region at the microphone of France Bleu Limousin.
“I believe that there is the Valérie of the cities, Valérie of the fields”, notes Frédéric Soulier. “It has this vocation, undoubtedly to have a good understanding of the territory that represents, by their diversity, French territories.”
Valérie Pécresse’s victory is also good news for Pascal Coste. The president of the Corrèze department, support of Xavier Bertrand, knows that this attachment to Corrèze can only be a good thing: “I believe that its fusional link with Corrèze for years will bring it back to realities also on the ground.”
Pascal Coste who sees in Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the rally: “The intelligence of our candidate will be to take the good programmatic elements of each and that she truly represents the only alternative to Mr. Macron for the month of April.”
The new Republican candidate will also make her first trip in her new costume, Monday, alongside Eric Ciotti, on the latter’s land in the Maritime Alps.