Presidential 2022: facing her supporters in Toulouse, Valérie Pécresse boxing Emmanuel Macron
Valérie Pécresse was in a meeting at the Pierre-Baudis center in Toulouse this Friday evening. Rolling out her program, the right-wing candidate has continued to mark her difference with Emmanuel Macron, whom she accuses of coming to plunder her ideas.
“Macron burns the cash register, I vote for Pécresse!” or “Macron at Touquet, Valérie at the Elysée!” The target was all designated this Friday, March 18 at the Pierre-Baudis congress center in Toulouse, where Valérie Pécresse managed to fill the room. Some 1,200 supporters gathered, not an empty chair and waved tricolor flags: not in keeping with the atmosphere of the great evenings, but a beautiful room that must have warmed the heart of the candidate from the right, in bad shape in the polls and who sees Emmanuel Macron will now carve out some nice cruppers for him by claiming some of his proposals.
Faced with her supporters, the candidate LR has also focused her shots on the tenant of the Elysée. “His record is his ball, and that’s why he doesn’t want to debate,” she judged to applause – and even having to suppress a few bird names that flew to the back of the room. . The rest of the speech was to match: sovereignty, security, immigration, pension reform. “How to trust a president who promises the opposite of what he has done for five years?” Hammered the president of the Île-de-France region.
Pradié and Moudenc in support
A little earlier in the evening, Aurélien Pradié, spokesperson for the candidate, but also a deputy for Lot, also shot his arrows in the direction of the Elysée. “His presidential majesty refuses the debate, but we are right to call him to account on his relationship to democracy. When Emmanuel Macron refuses the debate, he refuses a certain idea of democracy and political courage”, he launched.
Before him, the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, ribbon in the colors of Ukraine on the lapel of the jacket, had opened the debates by praising “the solidity”, “the audacity” and “the courage” of the candidate. “In life, you always have to support your friends. It is at this moment that we must be with you more than ever, by your side”, considered without the mayor of the Pink City detour, often presented as “Macron- compatible”.
And in the room? Marie-Laure, accompanied by her young son wrapped up in his orange down jacket, applauded with both hands. “Valérie Pécresse is the candidate who represents our liberal right values. She is the only one who puts the value of work at the heart of the campaign and that is what we want”, she gets carried away. As for the chances, today very uncertain, of Valérie Pécresse to reach the second round of the election, Marie-Laure sweeps away the doubts: “Of course we believe in it, otherwise we wouldn’t be here!”, strikes the quadra. “Finally, we would like to believe it…”, tempers Marc, seated one row behind.