Legislative: Pécresse calls on the right that voted for Macron to regain its “freedom”

June 4, 2022

The former right-wing candidate for the Elysée Valérie Pécresse calls on the voters of her camp who voted for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election to “take back their freedom” and to vote in the legislative elections for Les Républicains, the only “credible” opposition in her eyes. .

“I invite all the voters of the right and the center to remobilise. I invite in particular those who, from the first round of the presidential election, believed it necessary to vote useful – that is to say Macron – so as not to risk a Le Pen-Mélenchon duel, not to fall into the same trap and to regain their freedom”, affirms the former contender, eliminated in the first round with 4.78% of the votes, in a tribune published on the Figaro website.

France is “placed before the risks of a confrontation between, on the one hand, the hyper-presidency, on the other, hyperpopulism. A democracy reduced to this duel can only be violent and sterile for the French”, believes Valérie Pécresse.

“And the day when the current power will be declining, there will only be the protest parties left to claim to govern France”, warns the president of the Ile-de-France region.

“Only a free and credible right can stop this disastrous scenario. By voting for it, the French can push back the extremes, but also, influence future orientations”, she judges.

For Ms. Pécresse, “we must put an end to the Jupiterian verticality” of Emmanuel Macron, while Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon “with their illusory radicality, feed on problems without solving them”. “In the National Assembly, the real opposition will be that which does not give in to the intoxication of demagogy,” she underlines.

First opposition group in Parliament, the Republicans are playing their survival in the legislative elections, where they risk seeing their numbers melt away, after the worst defeat in their history.