Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Manon Fossat 09:31, December 05, 2021

It's the end of the suspense.

Valérie Pécresse will be the LR candidate for the 2022 presidential election, the first woman to represent the right in this supreme election.

She will therefore have the heavy task of leading her party, which for the moment lags behind in the polls, into battle.

It is indeed credited with 10 to 11%, far behind Emmanuel Macron and the extreme right. 

Valérie Pécresse is the candidate who will represent the right for the presidential election.

Elected on Saturday with 60.95% of the votes of LR members against Eric Ciotti, it is the first time that a woman has represented this political family in the race for the Elysee Palace.

But after this victory at the LR congress, is the dynamic launched for the president of the Ile-de-France region?

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In any case, this is what the candidate hopes for, congratulated by almost all the party executives on Saturday, as well as by François Fillon.

She also spoke on the phone with Nicolas Sarkozy, a few minutes after his appointment.

Because even if the former president has not yet taken a position, Valérie Pécresse can count on a political family gathered behind her. 

Talk to the French who abstain

Henceforth, it is therefore another campaign which begins, to meet the French and not only LR members, as she explained on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. on TF1.

"I'm going to go talk to the French, to those who abstain, to this France of roundabouts, to those who have trouble finishing their end of the month, to those who are afraid for their safety, for their way of life … I'm going to go talk to them because we have solutions. "

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Valérie Pécresse thus intends to increase the number of trips.

She will be on Monday at Éric Ciotti in the Alpes-Maritimes, Thursday in Savoie at Michel Barnier and Friday in Hauts-de-France with Xavier Bertrand.

So many former competitors that she should include in her campaign team to storm the Elysee Palace.

But to get there, the Republican candidate will have to dig her furrow and impose her line, to occupy a political space that seems narrow, halfway between Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour.