Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Laura Laplaud 8:25 pm, December 11, 2021

A week after winning the Les Républicains party primary, Valérie Pécresse gave her first campaign speech at the Mutualité in Paris on Saturday.

An essential step to reunite his political family, often divided in the past, and to call on the French to come together behind his candidacy. 

The candidate Les Républicains (LR) spoke to officials and activists of the movement on Saturday at Mutualité in Paris, after a week spent meeting with party officials.

The goal was clear: to bring people together.

In front of a room won over to her cause, Valérie Pécresse very quickly asserted her political line: "There is no question of leaving the future of France in the hands of immobility or extremism", he said. she clamored.

A desire: to get closer to the French

Between Emmanuel Macron on one side and Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen on the other, the candidate claims a radical project from a frank right.

“I am a liberal and social Gaullist,” she says.

Valérie Pécresse also spoke about her, her career and even her childhood, with the desire to make herself known more to the French, as when she explains that she was born on July 14.

“As a child, I watched the flags fly in the sky while waiting to dance under the fireworks. I saw the blue-white-red smoke trails on the Champs Elysees,” she says.

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The candidate finally wanted to show the unity of her political family.

So, to her former competitors in Congress, whom she nicknamed "the four musketeers", she launches: "We will be one for all and all for one".

At the end of the day, all of them go on stage around the candidate who, after having gathered her own, must now convince all the French.