Rachida Dati in April 2021. – Lionel GUERICOLAS / MPP / SIPA
The national LR investiture commission for the regions experienced some turmoil on Monday, May 3. While the party voted to invest Valérie Pécresse as a candidate for the Ile-de-France region, Rachida Dati abstained, stealing her support from the president of Libres!, according to The Parisian. “There was unreserved support during the nomination committee, with only one abstention, that of Rachida Dati”, confirms to 20 minutes a relative of Valérie Pécresse.
The reason given by the mayor of the 7th arrondissement? The fact that LR advisers would not be sufficiently well positioned on the list, according to the daily.
“We are the first opposition group in Paris, the first militant force and we find ourselves placed behind some of those who were our opponents during the municipal elections”, complains Rachida Dati in the columns of the newspaper, referring in particular to the mayor (LREM) of the 9th arrondissement, Delphine Bürkli.
“Valérie Pécresse cannot increase the number of eligible positions”
“It’s incomprehensible, the LR candidates have 55% of eligible seats in Paris and the average ratio in Ile-de-France is 53%. Nowhere else is this a problem. The head of the list is Frédéric Péchenard who is totally LR, and Nelly Garnier in number 2 is the right arm of Rachida Dati. So I don’t understand his refusal. Valérie Pécresse cannot multiply the eligible positions ”, comments for 20 minutes Patrick Karam (LR), 5th on the list. One more episode in the tense relationship between the two elected officials and LR heavyweights.