China News Agency, Paris, December 4 (Reporter Li Yang) Valerie Pecres, chairman of the Paris Regional Council, won the nomination of the French Republican presidential candidate on the 4th local time.
She will represent the party in the French presidential elections in 2022.
The French Republican Party held the second round of voting in the party's presidential primaries on the same day. Pecres's vote was 60.95 percent. Her competitor, Eric Jyoti, a member of the National Assembly of the Alpes-Maritimes in southeastern France, got the vote. 39.05%.
In the first round of voting in the primary election held earlier this week, Pekeres and Jyoti ranked the top two in the vote, entering the second round of voting.
The two popular candidates who participated in the first round of voting, President Bertrand of the Upper France Regional Council and former French Foreign Minister Barnier, were eliminated from the game because they fell behind in the vote.
Bertrand and Barnier both called on their supporters to support Pecres in the second round of voting.
The 54-year-old Pecres thus became the first female presidential candidate launched by the French Republican Party.
She emphasized her status as a female candidate when she expressed her victory speech and expressed her gratitude to the French Republican Party for supporting her candidacy.
Pequeres said that France is still full of vitality, but the country's system has problems.
She expressed the need to reform the system and launch "clear and forceful actions" on this.
She said that the French Republican Party will restore the pride of the French.
The French Republican Party is the traditional center-right party in France.
Former French Prime Minister Fillon represented the Republican Party in the 2017 French presidential election. His election was once favored by the outside world. However, due to the exposure of the "empty gate" incident on the eve of the election, Fillon’s election fell sharply and was eliminated in the first round of the presidential election. .
According to the results of the latest polls, Pecres’s presidential election in the first round of voters’ support rate was about 11%, ranking behind the current President Macron (24%), the far-right party leader Marina Le Pen (19%), After the extreme-right public figure Zemur (13%), he temporarily ranks fourth.
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