She has long ignored her rivals placed on her right to concentrate her blows against the head of state and try to set up the match between her and Emmanuel Macron. Things have changed. From now on, Valérie Pécresse, the LR presidential candidate, no longer spares the two far-right candidates. Sign that the battle is raging to qualify for the second round of voting. Friday Valérie Pécresse spoke purchasing power on lands in difficulty which vote massively for Marine Le Pen. And this Monday, his trip to housing in Val-de-Marne was also an opportunity to attack Eric Zemmour.
Until now, let it flourish Eric Zemmour it was to weaken Marine Le Pen and lower the qualification threshold for the second round. All in all, a good operation for Valerie Pécresse.
But now, the former polemicist has made candidate LR his priority target. By advocating “the union of the rights”, he wins over his electorate. And this weekend, the far-right candidate squarely took up Nicolas Sarkozy’s emblematic measure of “working more to earn more”, the slogan of his 2007 presidential campaign.
So Valérie Pécresse replies: “ It’s been several months since I proposed a 10% wage increase on purchasing power over a five-year period, total tax exemption for overtime… I’m happy that Mr. Zemmour has come to copy my proposals! It proves that in economic matters the right is one step ahead and that some are running behind… »
The gap between Pécresse (15.5%) and Eric Zemmour (14.5%) is narrowing according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match, LCI and Sud Radio published yesterday Monday. It is therefore urgent to mark its difference. ” He talks about him, makes buzz, trash, clashexplains Vincent Jeanbrun, spokesperson for the candidate, at the microphone of Lucile Gimbergpolitical service. We are on a fair phenomenon, while Valérie Pécresse is in the convictions, in the concrete and serious proposals. When you are President of the Republic, you have the nuclear codes, you are the head of the army! Me, it scares me to imagine a character like him at the head of our country… »
” The French must open their eyes “, adds the Pécresse team which circulated a document, of its own, entitled ” The Nazi sympathies of Eric Zemmour “.
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