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This is a first in the history of the right: a woman, Valérie Pécresse, was widely chosen by the members of the Republicans in the party primary on Saturday, December 4.
When the results were announced, Saturday, December 4, the clamor. Valérie Pécresse was the Republican candidate for the 2022 presidential election with nearly 61% of the vote. The latter began with a sentence against Emmanuel Macron in his victory speech. “I will not be a president of the zigzag who tells everyone what he wants to hear. Emmanuel Macron has only one obsession: to please. Me, I have only one passion: it is to do. “ Unhappy candidate of the second round with 39% of the vote, Eric Ciotti assured him his unambiguous support. Valérie Pécresse becomes the first woman to represent the right in the presidential election. Its program: a firm line on immigration and security, and liberal on the economy.
A consecration for the one who has long remained in the shadow of the party barons: after HEC, then ENA, she joined the cabinet of Jacques Chirac at the end of the 1990s. She became deputy then minister of Nicolas Sarkozy before conquering the Île-de-France region in 2015. His objective: to make people forget his party’s failure in the 2017 presidential election.