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The presidential candidate of the Les Républicains party visited the Greek island of Samos and the Zervou camp on Saturday, unfolding her very right-wing positions on the issue of borders and migration.
In terms of migration, Emmanuel Macron wanted “put the dust under the rug”. It was Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the Les Républicains party who said so on Saturday… from the island of Samos. At the gates of Europe and a few kilometers from Turkey, it wanted to show that it was there too in the race for the presidency of the Republic and wanted to position itself on “the international issues that will be invited into the campaign”. For forty-eight hours, she therefore unfolded her proposals on the issue of borders and migration.
This trip abroad – the second since the start of her campaign, after a trip to Armenia shortly before Christmas to illustrate her support for Eastern Christians, and which has since earned her, she says, threats from the President of Azerbaijan – started on Friday. Barely landed in Athens, Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier go to the very chic Hotel Grande Bretagne. The Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accompanied by Tasos Chatzivasiliou, the head of international relations of the right-wing party in power, New Democracy (ND), invite them there for a “friendly lunch” in camera. VS…