In the book And that’s what changed everything published in 2019, Valérie Pécresse freely evokes the misogyny of the political world. Confused with the wife of Edouard Philippe during a banquet chaired by the former Prime Minister, the candidate tells.
A recurring misogyny. To be a woman of power is not easy for Valérie Pécresse who wiped out many misunderstandings since the start of his career. Right-wing presidential candidate, Jérôme’s wife strives to be “four times more” vigilant and competent that a man. Victim of contempt, the president of Île-de-France confused with the wife of Édouard Philippe evoked this unfortunate anecdote in And that’s what changed everything published in 2019: “The conversation begins quietly, in English, for a few minutes with my neighbors …. polite, but not really interested “, she explains.
That year, the former MP as president of the host region receives hundreds of chairmen of large international groups during a lunch banquet chaired by the former Prime Minister. However, during this “mini-Davos” organized by Emmanuel Macron, none of the leaders seemed alerted by the status of Valérie Pécresse: “Sorry, I have the impression thatthere is a misunderstanding, gentlemen, in fact I am not the Prime Minister’s wife. I am the president of the Paris Region, which welcomes you. An angel passes. They thought I was Madame Philippe! “, underlines the candidate of the right. “Like what the male inter-self is as much the prerogative of the economic and political world“.
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Valérie Pécresse: “a woman president, that does not stick”
Chair the regional council was not an easy task for the candidate stunned by Emmanuel Macron: “I am always amazed to hear opposition advisers calling me in the hemicycle by calling me ‘Madam Vice-President ‘”, she emphasizes in this book. “A woman president does not stick. It’s not even out of malice, it’s not even to be cowards that they can’t say it, it’s much worse: they don’t do it on purpose. It’s just a slip of the tongue, the return of the repressed“. Candidate for the 2022 presidential election, Valérie Pécresse intends to upset mentalities.
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