New rallying for the putative candidate for the presidential election. Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin gave his support to Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday. This is, according to him, the candidate “the youngest and most experienced” and who “has everything in hand to succeed in his second term”.
“This five-year term will undoubtedly remain as one of the most difficult in our history: the president, in my opinion, has lived up to the function, I wish his candidacy and I will support him”, announced on LCI the former chief. of the government of Jacques Chirac (2002-2005) who left LR several years ago.
” I thought a lot “
“Emmanuel Macron is both the youngest and most experienced candidate, it is rare to be young and experienced and I know that it is very important today to succeed in a second term to have the lesson of successes but also the failures of the previous mandate”, he explained, adding that “to succeed in his second mandate, he has everything in hand”.
“I have thought a lot about this subject because I have consideration and affection for Valérie Pécresse, but the dangerousness of the international situation today removes all hesitation, the time has come for national unity, we must come together behind the head of our executive,” he said.
Hurry to declare
“I do not want the (presidential) debate to be skipped over, so that is why I would like the president to be able to declare his candidacy quickly because it is from the quality of the debate that the legitimacy of the election will come. election,” he warned.
“I will support the efforts of my friend Édouard Philippe, in whom I have full confidence to build what my political family has always been, that is to say a new center right”, added Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who wishes “to ensure that we enlarge the majority of Emmanuel Macron”.
“Kind of new UDF”
“It is not because we support Macron that we have become socialists”, he specified, seeing rather in the movement of Edouard Philippe, Horizons, “a return to a kind of new UDF”. “I think that Valérie Pécresse does not have this capacity today to be a dam on the far right and therefore, for safety, it is clear that those who want a dam on the far right have to vote Macron” , he argued.
The support of the former Prime Minister was immediately praised on Twitter by the deputy president of the LREM Group to the National Assembly Aurore Bergé, who said she was “very happy to find Jean Pierre Raffarin at our side in this presidential campaign”.