The boat has never rocked so much but Valérie Pécresse pretends nothing has happened and tries to stay on course. The pollsters give it far from a qualification in the second round, fourth or fifth in the voting intentions, and the right is already buzzing with the doubts of many LR deputies who could join the Macron or Zemmour camp the day after a defeat of the candidate .
Obviously it was not going well. So much so that the LR deputies had to sign a platform in the press to affirm their support for Valérie Pécresse. ” We are not soluble either in the majority embodied by Emmanuel Macron, nor in the extreme right embodied by Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour “, write the parliamentarians.
Field efforts
A way to chase away false rumours, assures the candidate, who is continuing her field efforts this Friday in the south-east of France: “ Listen, it’s their initiative, I think they want to put an end to these end-of-campaign rumors which seek, as we can see, to destabilize the candidate of the Republican right, why? Because I am the candidate that Emmanuel Macron does not want to have against him “.
The macronie multiplies the calls of the foot and brags that she could poach at least 30 LR deputies in the event of defeat of the right in the first round. In a low voice, the entourage of Valérie Pécresse recognizes the doubts of certain parliamentarians. But officially all will fight until the end.
” Emmanuel Macron is not a right-wing man »
The boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau insists: “ Emmanuel Macron is not a man of the right. Emmanuel Macron, he eats at all the racks. The “at the same time” is immobility. And what I say to our deputies, or to others, is that nothing is decided, and that the French are annoyed that they are told that it is over. »
In an attempt to mobilize her troops, Valérie Pécresse will multiply meetings in the region in the coming days. She will even go, for barely 7 hours, to Guadeloupe, to try to snatch a few votes.
► Read also: McKinsey controversy: the French government demines in the middle of the presidential campaign