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Cheered up by her televised duel against Eric Zemmour, the LR candidate was this Friday in Brive to continue to sell her “credibility” and her “spirit of responsibility”.
On the stall of a wine merchant in the Halle Gaillarde, a covered market in downtown Brive, the label of a bottle of red wine – “We don’t suffer” – makes some faces of the trotting troupe smile behind Valérie Pécresse. The candidate Les Républicains (LR), on the move this Friday in the sub-prefecture of Corrèze, also seems to endure less than usual. Smiling, she strolls through the aisles, chatting with producers and shaking hands at all costs. As if the debate on TF1 and LCI the day before against Eric Zemmour had brought him some oxygen in a difficult campaign. Like a clearing in the turbulence.
Faced with the far-right candidate, the president of the Ile-de-France region showed pugnacity, even aggressiveness, on Thursday evening, striking back at her far-right opponent. Above all, she was able to unfold her proposals and denounce the“ideology” and the“incapacity” of his rival. “This is the first time that someone has deconstructed Zemmour’s speech, blows a relative of the candidate, forgetting a little quickly the debates of the Maurrassian with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. And, what is more, on its so-called assets. Reinvigorated by her performance, which some in her camp nevertheless feared in view of the …