"I am their obsession, it defies in all directions by missing its target," said on France2 Ms. Pécresse, who now seems according to polls on the way to the second round.
The president of the Ile-de-France region criticized "a president who has not reformed" and who "will not reform" because "the French trusted him, gave him his chance, he did not. capture".
"Giving five more years is five years too long, without changing the lives of the French," added Ms. Pécresse, according to whom "Emmanuel Macron is taking us into a wall of debt and deficit. I want to get out of this impasse and that the French can live with dignity from their salary and their retirement ".
But "the money, we will only find it if we spend better and if we remove a good part of layer of this bureaucracy", she added.
Returning to the words of the Head of State, who had criticized his plan to cut 150,000 civil servant posts, she explained: "I do not want to replace one in three retirements. We need to create 50,000 civil servant positions. moreover in three missions: protect, educate, cure ", divided into 25,000 linked to the hospital, 15,000 for justice and 10,000 for education.
Criticizing a "lack of sincerity" of the president during his show Wednesday evening on TF1 and LCI, Ms. Pécresse added: "I wanted to be told where France was going, in fact we only talked about Emmanuel Macron ".
During the day, campaigning in Troyes, she had already criticized the "cynicism" of Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of wanting to "buy the French" and of having "fractured France like never before".
"Emmanuel Macron and En Marche are on the left, they have a problem with the sanction," she added, regretting that the Head of State "did not fight at European level to have nuclear power recognized".
She then promised to "go in contact with every French person" by thanking the LR members for having "had the audacity" to designate "a woman candidate for the presidential election".
"I am going to be worthy of it", she added, referring to the experience of Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher: "me too, like a lioness, I will protect France and I will restore French pride".
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