French politics: Rachida Dati candidate for the 2022 presidential election

Rachida Dati on the evening of the first round of the municipal elections for mayor of Paris on March 15, 2020. Philippe Lopez / POOL via AP

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We knew the ambitions of Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse, we knew the doubts of François Baroin, here is the time of Rachida Dati.

In an interview with an English daily, the unfortunate candidate for mayor of Paris says it openly: she wants to become President of the Republic.

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It is in the British newspaper 

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chose to display his ambition: "To win the presidential election of 2022".

A way for the former Keeper of the Seals to surprise and highlight an international stature.

In the interview with the British newspaper, the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, nicknamed "the lioness" by some of her friends and enemies, presents her private life and her political career as a long series of battles won, in particular against the Parisian elites, allusion to his Maghreb and modest origins, in hollow, to Emmanuel Macron.

By showing her wish to be the right-wing candidate in 2022, by sketching out campaign themes such as unemployment, inequality, insecurity, Rachida Dati tries a shot at pocking, getting a step ahead of Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand who will first have to win the regional battle and offer a solution to a party that had staked a lot on François Baroin.

Already this summer, regarding the indecision of the mayor of Troyes, Rachida Dati was impatient: “

“, The French are tired of waiting.

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