The best way to describe Valérie Pécresse is Emmanuel Macron in a blouse. The newly-elected candidate for Les Republicans (LR) swears she is the French president’s polar opposite, but ideologically there is little to separate the pair.
The 54-year-old Pécresse, who will now stand against Macron in next year’s presidential election, has been on the political scene for three decades.
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