With 60.95% of the vote, Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, was appointed this Saturday LR candidate in the presidential election of 2022.
A victory which delighted many activists present when the results were announced.
Others, on the other hand, did not hide their disappointment.
Valérie Pécresse and Eric Ciotti have displayed their unity and announced a first joint trip on Monday.
“Thank you for this daring. "It is a triumphant Valérie Pécresse who spoke this Saturday at the headquarters of LR, in Paris, reinforced by her clear score in the second round of the congress of her party, 60.95%. His opponent, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti, won 39.05% of the vote.
For the first time, the 150,000 LR activists have chosen a woman as presidential candidate.
"I think of all the women of France today and I say thank you to the members of this daring", launches the president of the Ile-de-France region.
A statement greeted by the bravos of the activists present in the room.
While the now presidential candidate is rolling out her program, promising to "restore work and merit", "to straighten France's finances" or to defend an "ecology of progress", "Valérie at the Elysee!"
"And" We won "fuse.
"The strongest program"
This victory rejoices Aurélie Souchet, a young activist who has supported Valérie Pécresse since the regional elections. “She's the one with the strongest program,” she explains. What about the fact that, for the first time, the candidate is a candidate? “I don't think the activists voted on the basis of gender, but it's important to show that a woman can play politics, that she can embody authority, the right. "
On the other hand, near the party entrance, it's a different atmosphere for Monique and Anne-Marie, LR activists for 41 years and 15 years. Their candidate was Eric Ciotti: “We are people of conviction, we are for a candidate who carries values. "They are not convinced by the rallying to LR of Valérie Pécresse, who had left the party in June 2019 before taking back her card a little over a month and a half ago:" She made a hold-up on LR. We were betrayed. "
The division, this is the image that LR wanted to avoid giving this Saturday.
Family photo with the five candidates for the primary, joined by the president of the party, Christian Jacob, and the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, thanks to each other… The elected officials are increasing the marks of consideration to erase the memory of the divisions of the 2016 primary.
The first trip of Valérie Pécresse as a candidate for the presidential election will also take place on Monday on the land of her defeated rival.
In the company of Eric Ciotti, she will go to Saint-Martin-Vésubie, a village hard hit by storm Alex in October 2020, and to Nice, the city of the deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes.
A mark of unity to reach out to the French.
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