What is Valérie Pécresse talking about when she says she is at the “barycenter” of the right?

Barycentre, nm: (sciences) center of gravity. Again this Monday morning on franceinfo, as she has done regularly since the start of her campaign, Valérie Pécresse has used this mathematical term to designate her positioning. “I am at the barycentre of the right”, declared the candidate LR, affirming here her concern to make the synthesis between hard right and social right, to seduce the right tempted to leave with Eric Zemmour, and to bring back to her that which had been conquered by Emmanuel Macron.

Accused by the right of the right of being an Emmanuel Macron bis, and by the macronists and the left to carry out a “right-handed drift”, Valérie Pécresse likes to recall that she is, on the contrary, the only one capable of uniting the strong right and the social right. When he is reminded of his recent polemical remarks on his wish to “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar” for “clean up the neighborhoods”, that she assumes to want to resume “the torch of the right which will be tough on the powerful, the bosses, the thugs” or that she claims to want to put an end to “ghettos” in ten years, the president of the Ile-de-France region recalls that she also wishes to increase salaries by 10% “up to 2.2 minimum wage” and “defiscalize alimony for single mothers”.

“She doesn’t just talk about immigration and security, but also about strong growth while respecting the environment, education…”, assured in December the president of the LR federation of Paris Agnès Evren. On December 5, the day after her inauguration as Republican candidate, Valérie Pécresse declared that her line was “clearly on the right, strong on the sovereign, strong on freedoms” but also “strong on social issues with my proposal to increase net salaries by 10% up to 3,000 euros. My right is Gaullist, liberal and social”.

This position is illustrated in his campaign team, made up of all the sensitivities of his party. A tactic that it has already managed to implement, successfully, in the Ile-de-France region, where it has attracted centrist representatives of Modem or Agir within its majority.