Revelations on the LR primary: Valérie Pécresse denounces "a destabilization"
Valérie Pécresse, after winning the LR primary in Paris, December 4, 2021. AFP - ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT
Text by: Aurélien Devernoix
1 min
According to the newspaper
Liberation
, the primary which crowned the Republican candidate last December was marred by multiple frauds.
Ghost members, dead voters and even a voter dog, the facts reported are disturbing, forcing Valérie Pécresse to react.
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Don't give up, admit no dysfunction.
Assailed with questions on the set of BFM TV, Valérie Pécresse chose the strategy of denial, with an argument: “
If it were true, my opponents would have criticized it,
she underlines.
It took place without any contestation.
If there had been any doubt, believe me there would have been
.
»
Except that the LR primary had precisely been designed to limit the risk of protest as much as possible with two rounds following each other in 48 hours and, according to the newspaper
Liberation
,
rapid destruction of the voters file.
“Me, I trace my path”
Enough to encourage a race for members of convenience, which moreover all the candidates were aware of, we recognize in the ranks of the Republicans.
"
But I didn't think it would have been that far
," admits a senator LR who is also surprised at the timing of the revelations while Valérie Pécresse is struggling.
The candidate speaks directly of manipulation and attempted destabilization.
But by whom?
“
Look, I don't know and I don't want to know.
Me, I follow my path
,” she says.
An astonishing lack of curiosity which, according to a Republican, can be explained by the desire to avoid internal settling of accounts likely to deal a fatal blow to the
Pécresse candidacy
and to the party itself.
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