Valérie Pécresse chose Saturday evening to project herself directly into the second round of the presidential election.
In Metz, the Republican candidate reserved her attacks on Emmanuel Macron and her record, during a "small meeting" deemed "much better" than the first by her voters who continue to defend their favorite despite her difficulties in the polls. .
Regularly presented behind Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour in the race for the Elysée, even behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon this week, the candidate almost ignored her direct competitors, judging them "discredited" by their "allegiance to Putin in the past ".
“There is Eric Zemmour who, two days ago, treated Vladimir Poutine as a democrat, whereas he is a dictator.
There is Marine Le Pen, whose party was financed by Russian banks”, she launched, while expressing her “Solidarity for the Ukrainian people”.
Pécresse promises a "shock of authority"
After this introduction, Valérie Pécresse concentrated her projections against Emmanuel Macron who announced his candidacy for the presidential election on Thursday evening.
"Emmanuel Macron's balance sheet looks like a bankruptcy filing", she charged, pointing to the Head of State's "Security Waterloo" or even the "French drama" of "Import dependence" and the trade balance deficit.
Speaking without notes, leaving her desk to move on stage in front of 600 rather wise supporters, the candidate unfolded her program, emphasizing sovereign subjects and the economy.
She promised a "shock of authority", announcing her ambition to "re-arm our defense to deal with high-intensity conflicts", to increase "the means of justice by 50%" or even to put in place referendums to decide on "migration quotas".
Macron "comes from the left"
Still targeting Emmanuel Macron, she scolded a president "who has a problem with the sanction, because he comes from the left", a president having committed a "fault" by recognizing "a crime against humanity in Algeria".
“He hurt memories.
We are proud to have heroes, ”she said.
Presented a little earlier by François Grosdidier, the mayor of Metz, as "a child of Jacques Chirac", Valérie Pécresse also addressed themes less present in the campaign, such as family or education.
She notably expressed her wish to introduce family allowances “from the first child” or to set up “an exam before entering 6th grade” to ensure that “everyone has mastered the fundamentals”.
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