VAlérie Pécresse has long criticized her two far-right competitors, who surround her in the polls. The LR candidate felt that Marine Le Pen was “not credible to lead” and that Éric Zemmour, the “friend” of the Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, represented “the France of the ORTF”. During the presidential election, “we are going to have to choose between Emmanuel Macron’s immobility and extremism”, affirmed the LR candidate in Charleville-Mézières, criticizing Marine Le Pen, who “bankrupted her party and about to bankrupt his country”. “She is absolutely not credible to lead France” and that would add “discord to disorder if she came to power”, she said, calling for this message to be conveyed to “all those who would be tempted by a coup of anger, of despair, because they can no longer take the life that Emmanuel Macron has inflicted on them”.
As for Éric Zemmour “it’s the France of the ORTF, black and white TV”, but “we never made plans for the future by looking in the rear view mirror”, she assured. “He talks to us about the fight against Islamism” and “at the same time his friend is called Tariq Ramadan”, she added, indignantly: “It seems according to Éric Zemmour that he is the victim of a cabal. The candidate’s team has multiplied in recent days the attacks against Éric Zemmour and his “nauseating methods”, lending Valérie Pécresse an indulgence towards the Islamists.
“I have made the fight against Islamism the red thread of my action since I became president of the Île-de-France region”, she said, condemning a “new totalitarianism of the 21stand century” because “the Islamists have decided to destroy us. “We choose de Gaulle, he chooses Pétain”, she added, before returning to the controversial exit of Éric Zemmour concerning the disabled. “That’s when I realized he didn’t have the stuff to lead our beautiful country,” she said. “Humanity is with us, the social right is us,” she said.
Ahead of Zemmour in the polls
An OpinionWay study published on Friday gives Valérie Pécresse 15% of the voting intentions, one point behind Marine Le Pen and two ahead of Éric Zemmour. In Arthur Rimbaud’s hometown, she also criticized “the long season in hell of Macronland’s ten years”, deploring the economic record (“checks and failures”) of a “lonely and authoritarian Jupiter” who “totally failed on authority”.
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