Among her nicknames are "The Bulldozer" and "Macron's Worst Nightmares".
Valerie Pecresse seeks to be the first female president of France
Valerie Pecres celebrates her party's presidential nomination.
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Presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse speaks to her constituents in northern France.
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French presidential candidate Valerie Pecresse is calling her supporters "Macron's worst nightmare", referring to the anxiety she may cause French President Emmanuel Macron during the race for the presidency, but she is likely to face a difficult battle to remove him from office in the next presidential election.
To garner support for her election campaign, Pecresse went to the French countryside this summer, visiting farms and villages, to reflect the image she has been portrayed as the "blonde bourgeoisie" of Versailles, and promised to change the stereotype of the president who is always elected from among the male candidates, she said in her meetings. In glee: "I will be the first female president of France."
The French political sphere took on a bit of eccentricity after Macron won the presidency in 2017, as someone outside the political circle with no electoral experience, and that his party had been formed within a few months.
Bekrice's supporters say her status as a woman is something new and makes her Macron's worst nightmare.
Pecres, 54, wants to prevent Macron, the favorite, from being re-elected next spring. As the first woman to run for president from the traditional, male-dominated right-wing Republican Party such as Charles de Gaulle, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, she is seen by some as a new hope after her career of more than 20 years on the front lines of politics. There are already other female candidates running from the left and the far right, but Pekris is a Republican first.
Her party chose her as a presidential candidate after a bitter struggle with some of the party's most powerful symbols, over a powerful right-wing card to "restore France's pride and protect the French."
She says she wants to "return power" to the nation, and has promised to tighten the grip of justice and the police, crack down on immigration and shrink the public sector.
"I feel the wrath of people who are powerless in the face of violence and the rise of Islamic separatism, and who feel that their values and way of life are threatened by uncontrolled immigration," she said in her victory speech.
Proposals
Her proposals include halving the number of residence permits for non-EU migrants, and she also wants a referendum to change constitutional law and introduce immigration quotas.
It promised to end the 35-hour week, raise the retirement age to 65, cut 200,000 public sector jobs, and build more nuclear reactors.
Becresse has traditionally been considered to be on the moderate side of the center-right, but she has been tough on her dealings in the Ile-de-France region she administers, which includes high-rise suburbs around the capital. », or full-body swimwear, in outdoor recreation areas.
Thatcher's firmness... and Merkel's wisdom
Peckers likens herself to the late British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and admires her courage and "firm hand", but she seeks to lead the country like former German chancellor Angela Merkel, who said she was good at unanimity and left Germany "richer, stronger, more united." .
Her supporters say her center of strength against Macron is her experience as a budget minister trained in finance.
According to its former president, Sarkozy, she is "obsessed" with the details of her files, and she has a background on the center-right ground occupied by the current president.
Despite his drive to improve gender equality, Macron remains largely surrounded by male advisers, and has appointed men to the highest positions in government.
And Pecris' team wants her to make it look traditional.
But her task seems difficult, as her party has been the right-wing party that has been in government for a long time, but lost the presidency in 2012. It faces stiff competition from the growing far-right opposition, not only from the leader of the right-wing National Rally, Marine Le Pen, but also TV analyst Eric Zemmour.
Many voters and politicians moved from the center of the party to Macron.
Becresse, a former senior civil servant who began her political career as an advisor to Chirac at the Elysee, shares his nickname, often called "The Bulldozer".
She is well known during difficult and epic electoral battles.
remarkable rise
In her first parliamentary elections in Yvelines, outside Paris, as a strange, unknown young woman, she defeated a famous military general. In 2015, she led the right to victory in the traditional left-wing Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris and the surrounding area, the most populous and wealthiest region in France. Under Sarkozy, Pecresse held difficult ministerial positions, including as minister of higher education when the country faced its worst street protests in years over university reform. I undertook the most dangerous reform of Sarkozy's presidency, which no one wanted to do.” Sarkozy later appointed her budget minister, a role in which she had to deal with the repercussions of the sovereign debt crisis.
Becresse was born in the picturesque and intelligent town of Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, into a family of Gaullist intellectuals.
Her father was a professor of economics, and her maternal grandfather was a prominent psychiatrist who treated Chirac's daughter for anorexia.
Her maternal grandparents were active in the French Resistance, and hid paratroopers during World War II.
Pecres says she was raised as a "socialist Gaullist" on "the virtuous advantages of the republic".
Her father told her that the females of the family could succeed as well as the men.
She passed two grades in private school, obtained her baccalaureate degree at the age of 16, went to the most prestigious business schools in France, and later became among the first students at the French Training School for Senior Civil Servants.
She later became a chancellor at the Elysee in 1998, turning to politics in part because she wanted to counter the rise of the far-right led by Le Pen.
She married Jerome Pecres, a business engineer, and they have three children, aged between 18 and 25, whom she hides from the cameras of media photographers.
• Pecres, 54, wants to prevent Macron, the favorite candidate, from being re-elected next spring. As the first woman to run for president from the male-dominated Republican Party such as de Gaulle, Chirac and Sarkozy, she is seen by some as new hope after her 20-year career on the front lines of politics.
• Peckers compares herself to the late British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and expresses admiration for her courage and "firm hand", but she seeks to lead the country like the former German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who said she was good at unanimity, leaving Germany "richer, stronger, more united.”
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