A few days before her first big meeting in Paris, the right-wing presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse is slipping in the polls and struggling to get her campaign off the ground and has just lost the support of Eric Woerth. President LR of the Finance Committee in the Assembly and former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy has joined the camp of Emmanuel Macron. Valérie Pécresse’s support committees met on Wednesday February 9 at the Maison de la chimie in Paris.
Speaking by videoconference to representatives of her support committees who had come to Paris from all over France, Valérie Pécresse evacuated the rallying of Eric Woerth to President Emmanuel Macronas if it were a non-event: I ask you to be impassive. The technique of individual poaching is not ours. We are a party of conviction. »
But the violence of the replies from his camp shows that it is a blow for the candidate LR who is struggling to stand out from the head of state.
” MP at the end of his career », « sated animal that fetches another bowl » : Éric Woerth is portrayed as a traitor by his former comrades.
In the Assembly, it was he who led the charge of the right against the budgetary management of Emmanuel Macron. ” What is the ideological coherence, when he spoke of a spendthrift euphoria dear Emmanuel Macron for five years? indignant MEP and spokesperson for Valérie Pécresse, Agnès Evren. I think that there are obviously, alas but this is part of the policy, counterparties that were expected from him. »
Another heart – and not the least – seems to swing between Valérie Pécresse and Emmanuel Macron: that of Nicolas Sarkozy. Until then very silent, the former president leaked his grievances against the campaign of candidate LR. And leaves doubt about his preference.
#Woerth In his political life, #Woerth has never decided anything without having received prior approval from Nicolas #Sarkozy Things get complicated for Valérie Pécresse. Let us be as sad as lucid. :((
— ARCHER Jean-Yves (@JYvesARCHER) February 9, 2022
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Nicholas’ silence #Sarkozy about the presidential election embarrasses the right
The ex-president says nothing publicly about Valérie’s campaign #Pecresse. However, in private, the former president thinks no less. https://t.co/Od0d4Klh9m
– Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) February 9, 2022