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Valérie Anne Émilie Roux (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 14 de julio de 1967) conocida como Valérie Pécresse, es una política francesa. Actualmente se desempeña como presidenta del consejo regional de Isla de Francia.
Valérie Pécresse Écouter, née Roux le 14 juillet 1967 à Neuilly-sur-Seine, est une femme politique française. Ancienne élève de HEC et de l'ENA, elle est membre du Conseil d'État de 1992 à 2015. Elle enseigne à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris de 1992 à 1998 (maître de conférences en droit public).
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Pécresse is the daughter of prominent economist Dominique Roux who taught at Université Paris Dauphine and later served as CEO of Bolloré. She has degrees from HEC Paris and the École nationale d'administration.She speaks French, English, Russian and Japanese. Pécresse was an auditor of the Conseil d'État until 1998, when she was designated council...
Career in local politics
In 2004, she took office as a regional councillor of Île-de-France. She was also the spokeswoman of the Union for a Popular Movement party in Yvelines. In 2020, she took office as a municipal councillor of Vélizy-Villacoublay.
Career in national politics
In addition to her activities in regional politics, Pécresse served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 until 2007, representing the Yvelines department (2nd constituency). In Parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (2002–2005) and the Committee on Cultural Affairs (2005–2007). In 2004, she became the spokeswoman for Nicolas Sarkozy, who was then leader of the UMP. From 2007 until 2011, Pécresse served as Minister of Higher Education and Re...
President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France
In December 2015, Pécresse led a list of candidates of the Union of the Right, a coalition of centrist and right-wing parties, which narrowly won the Île-de-France regional election, defeating the Union of the Left, a coalition of socialists and ecologists. She became the first woman to hold the office of president of the Regional Council of Île-de-France.[citation needed] In the party's 2016 presidential primaries Pécresse endorsed former prime minister Alain Juppé. Amid the Fillon affair, i...
Social policy
Opposed to the Taubira bill on same-sex marriage in France, Pécresse participated in various demonstrations opposing same-sex marriage and LGBT parenting between 2012 and 2013, notably led by La Manif pour tous. In a 2016 op-ed published by Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, Pécresse joined sixteen other high-profile women from across the political spectrum – including Élisabeth Guigou, Christine Lagarde, and Fleur Pellerin– in making a public vow to expose "all sexist remarks, inapprop...
Homeland security
In response to the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, Pécresse said France needed its own version of the Patriot Act. Following the murder of Samuel Paty in 2020, Pécresse argued for lifting restrictions on facial recognitionand using artificial intelligence to fight terrorism on public transport networks.
Economic policy
Declaring herself in favour of economic liberalism, she said in August 2021 that she was "two-thirds Merkel, one-third Thatcher". In the run-up to the 2022 presidential election, she promised to cut public spending and taxes through four major reforms: eliminating 150,000 civil service jobs, moving to retirement at age 65, reducing unemployment benefits and withdrawing the state from competitive companies in which it is a minority shareholder. She also wants to end the 35-hour workweek. At th...
Pécresse has been married to former investment banker and current CEO of GE Renewable EnergyJérôme Pécresse since 1994. The couple have three children.
"Miss Oradour", in Thiollet, Jean-Pierre (2022), Hallier en roue libre, Paris: Neva Editions, ISBN 978-2-35055-305-4
(in French) interview of Valérie Pécresse for a student TV during the strike of university teacher in February 200919 de dic. de 2021 · Valérie Pécresse, la rival que más inquieta a Macron. La candidata de Los Republicanos sube en los sondeos tras su nominación. Ella se define como “dos tercios de Angela Merkel y un tercio ...
4 de dic. de 2021 · CHRISTIAN HARTMANN (Reuters) Silvia Ayuso. París - Dec 04, 2021 - 09:18 ACTUALIZADO: Dec 04, 2021 - 13:56 EST. La derecha tradicional francesa apuesta por una mujer para arrebatarle el Elíseo a...
9 December 2021. By Lucy Williamson,BBC Paris correspondent. Getty Images. Valérie Pécresse (left) currently heads France's most populous Île-de-France region. France's traditional right-wing...
10 de dic. de 2021 · Valérie Pécresse, the woman who could beat Macron The centre-right candidate in next year’s French presidential election will be a serious challenger to the incumbent © Joe Cummings
