MEP Valérie Hayer must be made official on Thursday at an executive meeting of the Renaissance party as head of the majority list for the European elections. “Daughter, granddaughter and sister of farmers”, graduate in public law, former vice-president of the Departmental Council of Mayenne.
She is the second woman to lead the centrist and liberal family of the European Parliament, after Simone Veil. Hayer has the advantage of knowing the complex European machine well, says Arthur de Laborde.