Now a 2022 presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse should still be able to count on her father, Dominique Roux, to support her in this new challenge that she has launched. If he is rather discreet, this former professor of economics follows her and supports the career since its beginnings. Zoom in on their relationship.
Among the men who count in the life of Valérie Pécresse, there is of course her husband Jérôme, who has supported her since her beginnings in politics. But he is not the only one to take a benevolent look at the career of the former Budget Minister. Her father, Dominique Roux, is also very present for his daughter. Moreover, Valérie Pécresse could have followed in the footsteps of her father, professor of economics, passed by HEC and the University of Paris-Dauphine. “When I was a child, my ideal was to become a university professor, like my father. (…) I live between university temptation and university frustration. Why ? Because I come from a family of academics. My father is an academic, my uncles are academics … and I was destined to be a university professor“, confides the interested party in the book Controversies published on May 9, 2011 by Nil editions, including The Student echoed. But on this way, she prefers to go into politics in the end : “At a key moment in my professional life, I hesitated between the way of politics and that of the university. “
A career choice that makes his father’s pride. In a newAn intimate ambition broadcast last November, Karine Le Marchand even affirms that the septuagenarian is “archi fan” of his daughter. From an early age, he decides to push her to give him confidence. And show her that she has every chance to succeed in life. “My father was there. He kicked me in the buttocks, but above all he appealed to my pride as a daughter, saying to me: ‘girls can do just as well as boys. You got that in you, you can make it happen“, recalls Valérie Pécresse, who was a shy child. And to sum up:”If I’m here, it’s mainly thanks to my father. “
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He was “a coach” for her
From the childhood of Valérie Pécresse, her father plays coaches with her. He teaches her to read, then pushes her to learn Russian. “I was his boss“, he jokes in a cross interview with Marie Claire few years ago. High “hard“by this father figure, the one who is today the mother of three children also praise his side “generous“ : “He bled himself so that as a teenager I went to England, to Russia … With a teacher’s salary, it was not easy“, she concedes. In view of the woman she has become, Dominique Roux is proud of the education he instilled in her:”I wouldn’t have liked her to sacrifice her life as a woman for her career. She did not do it“, says the one who notes “tenacity“which his daughter demonstrates in his professional life. “She does not let go“, he says.
The emotion of her father when she became a minister
When she was appointed Minister of Higher Education and Research by Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2007, at the age of 39, her father couldn’t help but shed a few tears, as he modestly confided in the M6 show: “She calls me, she says to me: ‘That’s it, I’m going to be a minister, but you absolutely tell no one!’ I have a small tear that flows. My daughter was a minister!“Proud of this great news, Dominique Roux did not manage to hold his tongue:”I called a first of my brothers and I said to him: ‘I’m telling you, but you swear to me that you won’t tell anyone!’ The second, etc. All were told to each other and each swore they wouldn’t talk to anyone“, he said.”Yes but since there were seven of them, it spread like wildfire“, quipped Valérie Pécresse. Now a candidate for the 2022 presidential election, her father will be an important support. As he always has been.
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