Unsurprisingly, Valérie Pécresse officially received, on Saturday January 22, the support for the presidential election of the party Les Centristes (LC), a small formation of former minister Hervé Morin. “My project is right-wing, it is breaking, but it is 100% compatible with your values”, assured the candidate LR. She was speaking at the National Council of LC, which had just voted a motion promising her to commit “fully and utterly for his campaign”. Paying homage to the “loyalty” of the party chaired by Hervé Morin, she praised the values in which she “recognised itself” : “Europe, solidarity, freedom, decentralization” but also “open to society and its developments” as “equality between all regardless of color or origin, gender equality”.
“The family of the right and the center is ready to go and build the alternation” and “we are here to embody a third way between immobility and demagoguery”, she added to the UDI, a few hours later. Valérie Pécresse also received the investiture of this centrist formation, before which she pleaded for the “agricultural sovereignty”, nuclear as “full-fledged zero carbon strategy energy 2015”, and a “European Marshall Plan” for Africa.
Facing “presidential cynicism”, the president of the Ile-de-France region promised to “to restore order in the accounts” with a program of “powerful reforms” on pensions, unemployment insurance or decentralization. “We are going to put at the heart of our project” education, she also promised, taking up her idea of “educational nation” Who “will end the single college which is in fact uniform”.
Criticizing without naming Eric Zemmour, she felt that “Inclusive education is not a dangerous obsession, but an ardent obligation” because “we must learn the existence of vulnerability and difference”. And “I also want to speak in this campaign of tenderness, love and fraternity”, launched the former Minister of Higher Education. “I don’t zigzag, I don’t tell everyone what they want to hear”, she added the day after a visit to the very right-handed Laurent Wauquiez, emphasizing his “obsession” of “remake nation”.
Hervé Morin for his part assured not to have “no problem” with this firmness on the regalian. “When you are center-right, you are liberal, you are attached to individual freedoms, but you are also for a strong state on its sovereign missions, capable of ensuring security, justice and the protection of our compatriots”, he added.