Valérie Pécresse in Greece: what messages does the LR candidate want to send?

Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Solène Delinger 12:00 a.m., January 14, 2022

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Less than a month after her trip to Armenia, Valérie Pécresse is heading to Greece to talk about immigration.

She must meet the Prime Minister and visit a migrant control center on the island of Samos.

What messages is the LR candidate trying to convey, just three months from the first round? 

Credibility of her stature as a stateswoman

There is a triple challenge in this trip to Greek lands.

First, Valérie Pécresse wants to talk about something other than the health crisis, a theme that the right criticizes the executive for having imposed, and which has obscured the rest of the subjects for a month.

Then, she wishes to put forward her proposals on immigration: to strengthen control at the external borders of the European Union, and to organize the processing of the right of asylum at the border.

Finally, by going abroad for the second time in this campaign, Valérie Pécresse tries to give credibility to her stature as a stateswoman, and to continue to set up the match with Emmanuel Macron.

She is trying to get out of the three-way competition at all costs with Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour, with whom she is neck and neck in the polls.

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Pécresse losing momentum? 

Internally, if no one is really sounding the alarm, his campaign raises some questions.

A tenor speaks of a "slack", others evoke a "false dish", after the dynamic that had carried her since her appointment to Congress at the beginning of December.

Several executives thus encourage him to make symbolic trips for his electorate and to formulate proposals that mark the spirits.

“There will be surprises”, promises his entourage, for whom the campaign will only really begin when the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron declares himself a candidate.