Candidate for her re-election for the presidency of the Regional Council of Île-de-France, the former LR Valérie Pécresse wishes in particular to develop the cycle paths between cities, to start a renovation of the high schools in the region, or to set up a bonus to help the lower classes acquire an electric vehicle.

The ex-LR president of Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse made official on Wednesday her candidacy for the regional elections, the result of which could condition her political future, in particular for the presidential election of 2022 where she is a potential candidate for the right.

"I am a candidate for a second term at the head of the Ile-de-France region," Valérie Pécresse told Le

Parisien

, outlining the main lines of her program.

"A bicycle ring road", renovation of high schools, creation of a regional mutual

She wants "a bicycle RER" and a blocked maximum price "at 4 euros" to travel anywhere in the region by public transport.

The RER bike are "cycle paths that will allow you to travel to Massy-Paris, Cergy-Paris ... and also with a ring road in the inner suburbs on secure lanes. It is a global plan, while coronapistes are little bits of track, ”she explains.

"In 2027, I pledge that all high schools will be new or renovated", says Valérie Pécresse who wants to create a regional mutual and offers "a bonus of 6,000 euros for the middle and working classes for the purchase of electric cars ", can be combined with state aid.

"I am fighting so that our region does not fall into the hands of an alliance between the left and the far left with indigenous, Islamo-leftist and waning sympathies. It would be economic and republican bankruptcy for our region and for the France ", according to Valérie Pécresse. 

This candidacy is not a surprise: the president of the Free! Movement, who had delighted the region to the Socialists in 2015, had said at the beginning of April how "this meeting of the regional" with her constituents was "very important" for her.

She had increased the pressure, ensuring that a defeat "would mark the end of (his) political career" - just as the president (ex-LR) of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand had promised before her.

A presidential ambition

A promise she reiterated on Wednesday, specifying: "the question of what I will do after the regional election cannot be asked today since everything depends on Ile-de-France residents". Valérie Pécresse is indeed one of those who could represent the right in 2022, like Xavier Bertrand (already declared), Laurent Wauquiez, LR president of the Rhône-Alpes region, or even the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau. This would require it to impose itself in its political family by keeping its region, then taking off in the polls, where Xavier Bertrand keeps for the moment a margin in advance.

According to a recent Ipsos survey on regional in Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse is credited with 34% of the votes in the first round, against 17% to Jordan Bardella (RN) and 12% to Audrey Pulvar (PS).

She would also win in the second round, but with a smaller margin in the event of a quadrangular.

The probable union in the second round of the three left-wing candidates could constitute the main obstacle to his re-election: Audrey Pulvar, Clémentine Autain (LFI / PCF) and Julien Bayou (EELV / Generations) all aim to arrive at the top of this " primary "in the first round to guide this gathering.

Tuesday, Julien Bayou announced to report to the National Commission of Campaign Accounts what he considers to be, by the outgoing president, the use of public money for his campaign.

The presidential majority candidate Laurent Saint-Martin, LREM deputy for Val-de-Marne, has 4 female members of the government on his lists (Marlène Schiappa, Amélie de Montchalin, Emmanuelle Wargon, Nathalie Elimas). On the side of RN Philippe Ballard, presenter on LCI, announced Tuesday to leave the antenna of the continuous news channel to become head of the list in the Paris section.