Valerie Pecresse, President of the Ile-de-France region and member of the Republicans political party, leaves under heavy rain a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe with French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) after the handover ceremony in Paris, France, May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - Valerie Pecresse, who leads France's main conservative party in the greater Paris region, is to form her own political movement, the latest sign that traditional French political parties are splitting up.
Pecresse had been put forward by colleagues as a potential national leader of The Republicans (LR), which like all of France's established parties is feeling the pressure after President Emmanuel Macron and his one year-old centrist grouping Republic on the Move (LREM) swept to power earlier this year.
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