Alexandre Chauveau
Valérie Pécresse wanted to play the proximity card on Friday by going to meet the inhabitants of the Ardennes. Arriving shortly before noon in Signy-L’Abbaye, a town of 1,300 inhabitants, the LR candidate methodically pushed open the doors of the shops to take the temperature of the voters, just over two months before the first round.
Valérie Pécresse was in the Ardennes on Friday, around Charleville-Mézières. A trip to meet residents and traders, focusing on the theme of work and purchasing power. The LR candidate for the presidential election indeed wants to give another dimension to her campaign, by displaying her proximity to the French.
A more accessible candidate
Faced with the criticisms that have become insistent on her too technocratic side, Valérie Pécresse wanted to get more in touch with people. Friday in Signy-l’Abbaye, a small village in the Ardennes, she spoke with a taxi driver about fuel prices. “Super 2 euros and 1.70 diesel … We squeeze our buttocks and we’re counting on you,” he says. Then she crosses the street and goes to the bakery, this time to talk about learning. “What I want is that there are no more employer charges on apprentices. And I would like that to be engraved in stone”, assures him the candidate.
Valérie Pécresse is more accessible, participates in a round table with construction workers, and assumes the new style of her campaign. “I believe that a President of the Republic today, he should not be in the Pantheon, he must be in the coal, at work,” she says again. His relatives encouraged him to open up more and to get in touch with people. The message has obviously been heard.