During a press conference held on Tuesday, the candidate’s spokespersons regretted that the President of the Republic “woke up 90 days before the presidential election” by “discovering the problems of insecurity”.
Security, the main theme of this presidential election? The day after Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Nice, during which the Head of State announced a battery of measures on this aspect with a budget of 15 billion additional euros, the spokespersons of Valérie Pécresse – Agnès Evren , Florence Portelli, Othman Nasrou, Aurélien Pradié and Guilhem Carayon – held a press conference on Tuesday, January 11, on the same subject. During their speech at the candidate’s campaign headquarters, they denounced the “communication“which they consider little followed”of actsof the President of the Republic.
While Emmanuel Macron promised to present this security bill in March, Aurélien Pradié stressed that the work in the National Assembly “were endingthis year on February 28, because of the presidential election. And that they would only resume after the election of new parliamentarians in June. “Emmanuel Macron talks to the French“, he stings, specifying that”the agendaof the National Assembly is “particularly loaded» and that it would therefore be difficult to imagine that this bill could be discussed. “ He is a candidate president who uses the means of the State to campaign », Sanctioned Florence Portelli, mayor of Taverny.
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One “catastrophic balance sheet»
On the move last week in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Valérie Pécresse made a remarkable outing, believing that it was necessary to “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar” to “clean up the neighborhoods” and “to restore order in the street”. According to his spokespersons, Emmanuel Macron’s announcements on this component are a response to proposals from the right on sovereign subjects. “He wakes up 90 days before the presidential election to tell us that there are problems of insecurity in the country. A speech will not erase a balance sheet“, retorts for example Guilhem Carayon.
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For Agnès Evren, safety is moreover the “main Achilles heelof the President of the Republic,the blind spotof his five-year term. “His record is catastrophic. He totally deserted the field of security. The government seems authoritarian and has no difficulty in restricting fundamental freedoms but lacks authority towards offenders. Strong with the weak, weak with the strong“, she denounces.
According to her, the Head of State has “prolonged the inertia and inaction of François Hollande“. “We are emerging from a decade of disintegration of state authority. The situation has deteriorated since the right is no longer in charge“, adds Othman Nasrou who points to a” spiral of insecurity “.
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More law enforcementin the field” and “better equipped»
The spokespersons then recalled the various proposals of Valérie Pécresse on the security aspect: better distribution of police personnel on the ground, law on the modernization of security and justice, new powers for the security forces, etc.
“During the previous two five-year terms, the police force has increased considerably. However, never has there been such a significant drop in clarifications and never have there been so few police officers on the ground.», blames Florence Portelli. The Republicans therefore plead for the police to be more present “in the field” and “better equipped“.
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Finally, the spokespersons insisted on another desire of the candidate: that of reforming the justice system so that judgments are faster and sentences are carried out. “The Ministries of Interior and Justice must work hand in hand like links in the same chain. This is currently not the case“, concludes Thibault de Montbrial, sovereign adviser to Patrick Stefanini, the campaign director of Valérie Pécresse.
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