Warm atmosphere among Republicans! Famous for not having her tongue in her pocket, Rachida Dati once again made headlines on Thursday morning on Franceinfo. The mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris has dismissed Patrick Stefanini, Valérie Pécresse’s campaign manager, who mocked the advice she had given to the Republican candidate when she had failed to win the mayor of Paris.
“I have no lessons to learn from Mr Stefanini,” she scoffs. We have to stop with the legend that he made candidates win”. Before officiating alongside Valérie Pécresse, the interested party had held the same position with Jacques Chirac in 1995 and François Fillon in 2017, favorite before the “Penelopegate” broke out. “He never made Chirac win, it was Antoine Rufenacht (editor’s note: the former mayor of Le Havre) who was at the maneuver,” rewinds Rachida Dati.
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“Stefanini did not exist, they offered him lodging and shelter at the time”, with “golden constituencies all over France, he won none” so “campaign lessons, he had better keep them,” adds the leader of the opposition in the capital, asserting: “Losers, I’m not interested”.
“Don’t take it out too much”
As for François Fillon, “he left him in a clean slate campaign”, lambasts Rachida Dati, insisting: “Deserters, it’s not too much my thing either”. “He gives me no lessons, I give him no lessons” and “he stays in his place”, she hammers, before recalling that Patrick Stefanini “was convicted for fictitious jobs”.”That’s why we told him (to Valérie Pécresse, editor’s note) not to take him out too much,” she quips again.
Rants that constitute the new stage of the soap opera opposing the two interested. The origin of the evil lies in an interview in which the former Sarkozy minister considered the campaign of Valérie Pécresse to be too technical.
“Rachida Dati was a candidate for the municipal elections two years ago, all the French remember how it ended,” Patrick Stefanini had retorted, before returning to her words and talking about “courageous and dynamic campaign” that “inspires us every day”. For Rachida Dati, “he rectified quite pathetically”.
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