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In first, French conservatives pick a woman as presidential candidate
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Head of Paris region Valérie Pécresse will be the presidential candidate of "Les Républicains," France's main right-wing party said on Saturday.
Pécresse won 61% of the votes in the final round of the party's primary election compared to 39% for her challenger Eric Ciotti, a hardliner MP from Nice.
It is the first time the French conservative party picks a woman to be its candidate.
"I am thinking of all French women today and I say 'thank you' to party members for their audacity," Pécresse said at
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