Valérie Pécresse uses the region as a “stepping stone”, denounced Thursday her left opposition to the regional council after the formalization of her presidential candidacy. These words are from Julien Bayou (EELV), the candidate for the union of the left, which she was ahead of by 12 points in the second round of the ballot at the end of June. “Less than a month after her re-election, Valérie Pécresse is already putting aside the mandate that the Ile-de-France residents have given her,” reacts Céline Malaisé, president of the communist group. “While the fourth wave [de Covid-19] threat and the social crisis sweeps, she worries about her personal destiny. It is distressing but not surprisingly. “
The former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy announced his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election in a newspaper interview Le Figaro posted on Thursday. And this, the day after a first plenary meeting of the regional council during which the president of the Ile-de-France region (Libres !, ex-LR) assumed that she wanted to launch almost all the measures of her second term, which runs until 2028.
“We suffer from a historic abstention but 20 days after her election, she is running for the next one”, denounces the national secretary of EELV. “She who claims clarity has been ambiguous throughout the campaign, unlike others.”
“Three little turns and then go”
During her regional campaign, the one who succeeded Jean-Paul Huchon (PS) in 2015 refused to discuss his possible national future, unlike his now right-wing rival Xavier Bertrand, reelected at the head of Hauts-de -France by proclaiming its ambition to be a candidate in 2022.
For Maxime des Gayets, president of the socialist and allied group, “Valérie Pécresse in the Île-de-France region is three little turns and then leaves. […] His campaign promises are already just memories ”.
For Paul Vannier, president of the Insoumis group, the president “is withdrawing from her commitments to Ile-de-France residents” by launching into the race for the Elysee Palace. “She will embody in the primary of her camp the current of a right tendency 1980s: hard, obsolete and disinterested in the great challenges of our time”.