Presidential: at the Zenith, Valérie Pécresse plays her all

VSn Sunday February 13, it is a perilous exercise that Valérie Pécresse must engage in during a meeting organized at the Zénith de Paris. The most important to date after the coronation of the Mutualité de Paris following its victory at the Congress of the Republicans, last December. Pressed by her camp to “break the armor” – an expression that annoys even among her closest supporters – the Republican candidate now faces a double challenge as the gap with her competitors in the polls is narrowing. First, to pose as the only credible alternative to Emmanuel Macron and then to engage, like never before, in a style exercise supposed to reveal the woman behind the candidate. “She plays her skin”, we recognize in the ranks of the Republicans, 60 days from the first round…