Valérie Pécresse: Part-Thatcher, part-Merkel and wants to run France
Valérie Pécresse has given the Republicans a lift, and a poll suggests she could be president. …
“It’s not enough to be a woman; you have to be a stateswoman,” he said. “[She] has been a minister, a deputy, a regional president. She has a proven track record on issues like secularism and security. She’s extremely pugnacious: when she has a goal, she goes for it.”