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Valerie Pécresse, candidate LR in the presidential election, has a ferocious appetite. The president of the Ile-de-France region will to have to unite all the rights that make up his party. His journey.
Her first asset is being a woman. This is what Valérie Pécresse hammered throughout the primary LR facing four men and that she has been rehearsing for years. Her political career began in 1998, when after having done ENA and HEC, she became Jacques Chirac’s advisor at the Elysée. In 2002, she was elected Member of Parliament for Yvelines then in 2004 joined the Regional Council ofIle-de-France. In 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy appointed her to his government Minister of Higher Education and Research then of the Budget in 2011.
In 2015, Valérie Pécresse wins his stripes within the Republicans by taking over the Ile-de-France region on the left. She will want to stand on her own feet and in 2017 created the Free movement! for notably “oxygenate the right “. In 2019, ten days after the slap in the European elections, she left the Republicans because “the party is padlocked from the inside”. In 2021, she was re-elected at the head of theIle-de-France. Then she accepts to participate in the LR primary, which she wins, and resumes her party card with the aim of becoming the first woman President of the Republic.