Valérie Pécresse did not miss the boat. The LR candidate at the Elysee said she was “indignant” by the words of Emmanuel Macron, who in The Parisian, Wednesday, claimed “to have very want to piss off the unvaccinated” and estimated, targeting antivax, that “an irresponsible is no longer a citizen”. “Insult is never the right solution. We will have to put an end to this five-year period of contempt. I want to end it, ”she said Wednesday on CNews.
In its wake, all the leading Republicans have not been outdone. “No health emergency justifies words of such brutality, such indignity. No epidemic need legitimizes a President of the Republic to go so far as to deny his own compatriots the quality of citizens, hammered Bruno Retailleau during questions to the government, to the Senate. As our political debate is polluted with violence, do you think the answer is verbal violence? “” Insult is the weapon of the weak. Emmanuel Macron is no longer able to argue and defend his positions, so he takes refuge in insult and provocation, ”said Christian Jacob on LCI.
This interview with Parisian put the head of state back at the heart of the debate, as he had not been for a long time. Within the right, he is suspected of having knowingly sought to recreate a cleavage around him. “Emmanuel Macron seeks to cause disorder to pose as a man of order, decrypts Annie Genevard, vice-president of LR. It is absolute cynicism. “In 2019, during the Europeans, the structuring of the debate between the camp of the progressives, led by the President, and that of the nationalists, led by Marine Le Pen, had enabled the majority to obtain a much better result than expected and to suffocate the Republicans. For the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron would intend to embody that of reason against that of unreason (the antivax and other conspirators). “But this is no longer possible today, believes a close associate of Valérie Pécresse. The right has since chosen a leader who has managed to rally his whole family behind him. ”
“We eliminate”. The candidate for the Elysee will surf on this controversy to try to impose another match sheet, Emmanuel Macron and her. “I am the only one able to finish with a President who obviously no longer supports the French when they no longer think like him”, she explained on CNews. “The rule” in the first round, we choose, in the second, we eliminate “will play fully against Emmanuel Macron with his sentence on the unvaccinated”, already predicts a deputy LR.
“Today, there are two candidates for government: the President of the Republic and me,” Valérie Pécresse also said on Tuesday in C to You. To consolidate this image, the tenors of the Republicans are nevertheless aware that they must be clear about the vaccination pass, while the turn of the debates in the National Assembly has obscured it: some of the LR deputies are against, while Valérie Pécresse is in favor of it; the LR group welcomed the suspension of the debates on Monday evening, like the RN or La France insoumise. They therefore sent a message to their troops: we must end it as soon as possible.
