PARIS (Reuters) – Valrie Pcresse, candidate for the Les Rpublicains (LR) party in the presidential election in France, returned on Saturday to Emmanuel Macron’s controversial remarks on non-vaccines against COVID-19, believing that the future leader of the State will now have to appease society in order to guarantee national unity.
In a statement on vaccination and citizenship, the president of the Ile-de-France region writes that Emmanuel Macron has become a counter-example, by allowing himself to “piss off”, she said, the French.
“Emmanuel Macron fuels the rejection of all authority figures. He fractures the country, he divides the French,” writes Valrie Pcresse.
“France needs another presidency. My presidency will be one of solutions, convictions, respect, courage and duty,” she adds.
For Valrie Pcresse, she said, the role of a president “is to lead the French and not to ‘piss them off'”, to consider them and not to deprive them of their citizenship.
On Friday, Emmanuel Macron declared to fully assume his remarks published Tuesday evening following an interview with readers of Le Parisien in which he said he wanted to “continue pissing off to the end” the non-vaccines, despite many criticisms in the political world .
Candidate LR also underlines that her presidency will be based on collective intelligence, believing that the current head of state has “staged a solitary presidency, disconnected from the deep aspirations and daily difficulties of the French”.
(Rdig by Claude Chendjou)