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Valerie Pekres photo Reuters
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Valerie Pecres, 54, a mother of three and leader of the Let’s Be Free! is a coalition partner of the Republicans, and Pekres is the first woman to run for the right. The current head of state, Emmanuel Macron, is looking forward to a second term.
Pecres is currently chairman of the regional council in the Иle-de-France region of Paris and is a former Minister of Education, then Minister of Administration and Budget and spokesman for the government of Francois Fillon under President Sarkozy.
Moderate right, representative of the centrist wing – described as “two-thirds of Merkel, one-third of Thatcher.” He defends right-wing economic theses to cut taxes, cut social benefits and cut the administration.
He defended the position of annulling gay marriage, but resigned two years ago. He proposed a “treaty between the state and Islam” law to protect the secular character of France, similar to the 1905 law with the Catholic Church. He is opposed to drugs and wants to strengthen the legal framework to combat their distribution and use.
It is more moderate on migration issues than the rest of its party members, offering only a limit and greater requirements for granting the right of residence, mandatory knowledge of French and respect for national values in order to migrate. He also wants a ban on migrants using the social system for 5 years from their arrival.
She grew up in Versailles in a family of intellectuals. At the age of 15 he decided to study Russian and went to Yalta in a communist youth camp. He then studied Japanese, where he studied in Tokyo, where he worked as a saleswoman. Pekres loves movies and TV series, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
She is a boxer and has three children. He criticizes sexism in politics, where if a politician raises his voice, it means he has character, and if a politician does it, she is perceived as hysterical.
Four months before the first round of presidential elections in France, scheduled for April 10 next year, polls show that the Republican candidate, whoever he is, will be in fourth place after Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemour.
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