Valerie Pecresse
France
The Republicans
member of the regional council of Île-de-France
government
Valérie Anne Émilie Pécresse is a French politician who has been the President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France since 2015. A member of The Republicans, she previously served as Minister of Higher Education and Research from 2007 to 2011 and Minister of the Budget and Government Spokeswoman from 2011 to 2012 under Prime Minister François Fillon. Pécresse represented the 2nd constituency of Yvelines in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and again from 2012 until 2016.
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Sep 22, 2026
Far Left
The Paris administrative court of appeal ended the Ile-de-France region's activity as a publisher of 'free' digital school textbooks, a scheme she launched in 2023 with the Pearltrees platform.
LFI reads this as a legal rebuke to a right-wing regional president who tried to privatise and standardise school materials through a single tech platform.