PECRESS. It is this Sunday, April 10, 2022 that Valérie Pécresse will know if she passes the course of the first round of the presidential election. Will the LR candidate lie the polls which placed her far from a presence in the second round? Such a result would be a slap in the face for the Republican right.
10:05 – A look back at a highlight of the campaign: the Zénith meeting
How to talk about Valérie Pécresse’s campaign without mentioning the Zénith meeting? On February 13, the LR candidate brought together 7,500 activists in the two Parisian concert halls. In a very French atmosphere, with a decor modeled on the national flag, she took a long bath in the crowd, just to warm up the room. Then she spoke, alone on the stage, for more than an hour. If everything was planned and all her supporters were mobilized for the occasion, this meeting was described as the biggest missed date of the candidate, considered too stoic by some, too nervous by others, like the reported France Inter the day after the rally. This decried performance is considered the turning point of his campaign: that of his gradual fall in the polls, since from 16% of voting intentions in January, it tumbled to less than 9% in April. She herself returned to this failure, confessing that it was her biggest regret in this campaign, and justifying herself by saying that she wanted to “speak like a man” on Wednesday April 6 on the airwaves of France Info.
09:00 – What are the measures in favor of parity and women’s rights in Valérie Pécresse’s program?
For the candidate who calls herself “viscerally feminist”, but not an “ideologue of feminism who will deconstruct men”, as she explained during her appearance on the program “La France dans les yeux” of BFMTV on January 18 , the most important are the measures aimed at equal pay, but also the fight against domestic violence. As such, she promises, if she is elected, to organize business conferences to “verify that equal pay for women and men” is correctly applied, but also to force companies that do not respect it to “do catch-up plans” so that “at a position of equal responsibility, we gain the same thing”. She also intends to better train the police in the reception of “women victims of violence”, while depriving harassers in transport of access to public transport for six months. Finally, during her visit to France Inter on January 20, she said she was in favor of the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union .
08:05 – What does Valérie Pécresse recommend for her family redesign project? (2/2)
In his program, the Republican candidate is developing a number of projects to make the family a “pillar of the nation” but also to boost the birth rate. As such, it wants to help parents with the care of their children by giving them the means to choose the mode of care, which would pass through access, without any resource condition, to the supplement of free choice of mode of care. guard (CMG), in addition to the increase in the tax credit for work at home. It also intends to support childcare in rural areas, by launching a national program for early childhood, but also to better support parents in the event of the child’s school difficulties or physical or mental health problems, by establishing a flexible parental leave for each parent. Finally, she looks at the subject of inheritance, wishing to facilitate transmissions within the family, especially to the youngest to “finance their studies or their life projects”, with a tax-free donation possible every 6 years. His last measure in this wake would be to abolish inheritance tax for 95% of French people by doubling the current allowance and increasing it to €200,000 for each child concerning direct line inheritance.
07:45 – What does Valérie Pécresse recommend for her family redesign project? (1/2)
“To make the family a pillar of the Nation again”, says the program of candidate LR. She explains that she wants to “replace the family at the heart of the nation project”, but also to revive the birth rate in France. She first criticizes the deconstruction of family policy in “ten years of the Hollande and Macron presidency”, even adding that the outgoing president has “conscientiously unraveled” it. Outraged by the fact that France has lost more than 10% of its births between 2012 and 2021, it is making proposals to boost the birth rate: restore the universality of family allowances, create a birth bonus of 900 euros for the first child ( paid until he reaches majority) and increase family allowances from the second child and for all parents to almost €150 per month for one child and more than €300 per month for 3 children. In addition, it intends to support single-parent families by tax-exempting alimony for the single parent and by increasing survivors’ pensions for surviving spouses by 39% when they have not acquired a personal right to a pension.
07:20 – According to the program of candidate LR, what behavior to adopt in the face of the war in Ukraine? (2/2)
In reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory, the Republican candidate included in her program measures to condemn Vladimir Putin’s offensive. As such, in addition to targeted sanctions decided at European Council meetings, it considers it necessary to “reduce purchases of Russian hydrocarbons, oil and gas”. However, she does not say she is in favor of a total embargo, which she says is complicated to “hold over time”, given “the risk of shortage” that it could cause on an international scale. Regarding the Ukrainian refugees, she positioned herself in favor of their reception, as long as they can “justify their status”, recalling on this occasion her firmness on the asylum policy, adding that she could show solidarity towards them “much more” than towards the “false refugees who have entered Europe unduly in recent years”.
07:00 – According to the program of candidate LR, what behavior to adopt in the face of the war in Ukraine? (1/2)
Like all the candidates, Valérie Pécresse devoted part of her program to the question of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Very firm in her speeches about Vladimir Poutine whom she has repeatedly described as a “dictator” and a “war criminal”, taking offense in particular that Marine Le Pen can consider him as a “potential ally”, a Once the war is over, she is in favor of taking targeted sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s entourage, sanctions which she would like to take during European Council meetings. In February, during his visit to France 2 on the 24th, she also said she wanted to organize “a new conference on security in Europe, which could give birth to a pan-European security council, from the Atlantic to the Urals”. Still on the Russian question, she opts for a “reinvestment” of France in NATO, which according to her is “not in a state of brain death”, but which requires that we “complete its European pillar”.
06:00 – How does Valérie Pécresse intend to respond to the ecological emergency?
Regarding ecology and the environment, Valérie Pécresse has announced that she wants to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The one who calls herself a “results ecologist” positions herself in favor of nuclear power, like her right-wing competitors. As such, it proposes to relaunch the existing nuclear power plants and to build six EPRs. Finally, it intends to decarbonize public and individual transport.
05:45 – What security policy does Valérie Pécresse want to put in place if she is elected?
Candidate LR is developing a broad and, it must be said, very tough security section in her program. On the one hand, she wants to release five billion euros to equip police officers: this reinforcement of the means of the police is not specific to Valérie Pécresse, since many candidates are leaning towards a revaluation of the means and police status. Valérie Pécresse also wants to restore the automatic minimum sentences, which would mainly concern violent repeat offenders and drug traffickers. The right-wing candidate also plans to create the so-called “punch” brigades, with recourse to the military “if necessary”, in “difficult neighborhoods”. Invited to the Grand Jury of RTL, Le Figaro and LCI on December 5, she had mentioned no less than “62 republican reconquest zones”. And to clarify: “There are checkpoints to enter these neighborhoods. These are areas where all the traffic is concentrated. These inhabitants have the right to security.”
05:20 – What policy does Valérie Pécresse intend to pursue for hospitals? (2/2)
In the wake of the increase in medical students and the revaluation of the salaries of midwives, candidate LR wishes to carry out an in-depth audit of the hospital coupled with an information system shared between public hospitals, private hospitals and city medicine. Faithful to its logic of simplification, it wants to “debureaucratize” the operation of the hospital for the benefit of the doctors in charge of the department, in particular by allowing everyone to choose their legal status. She also wants to set up a mode of financing “more oriented” towards the quality of care, without however specifying what it returns. Finally, it wants to establish an allocation by region to “fight against health desertification” to adjust the remuneration of health professionals in areas under pressure. As such, it also wishes to establish a 4th year of study in general medicine in order to create 4,000 “junior doctors” by 2025 by sending students at the end of their training to areas in need of doctors. Its goal is that “every French person” has access to care “less than 30 minutes from their home”.
Valérie Pécresse wants, according to her own words, “to put the country in order” and “to restore French pride” through a reform of the political system. The candidate made public her presidential project on her campaign site and she defends her strong proposals to the French during her travels. Her position as President of the Ile-de-France Regional Council highlights major areas to be exploited, this applies to the massive investment of public funds in the health sector, as well as in the training and integration of youth.
Voting intentions in favor of Valérie Pécresse for this presidential election have been measured throughout the campaign, on a daily basis in recent months. From Friday evening April 8, no polls can be published. Here is above as a reminder what the institutes had recorded in our compilation published on Friday, the last day of the first round campaign.