Announcement – The ambitions of Emmanuel Macron’s former Prime Minister were hardly in doubt
While France has been waiting for the name of the new Prime Minister for two months, here is finally the name of one of the candidates for the 2027 presidential election: Edouard Philippe. The former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron, between 2017 and 2020, announced this Tuesday that he will be “a candidate in the next presidential election” in the columns of Point this Tuesday.
If the rumors were going strong, they are now official. “It is often said that for a presidential election you should not want anything else. I subscribe to it,” he confided. “I am preparing to propose things to the French. What I will propose will be massive. The French will decide,” explained the president of the Horizon party in this interview.
The “four perils” that threaten France
In passing, Edouard Philippe took the opportunity to criticize the decision to dissolve the National Assembly and explained that he had advised Emmanuel Macron to “keep Élisabeth Borne”, whom the president decided to replace with Gabriel Attal.
The now candidate expressed concern about four “perils” that France could find itself facing. First, a “democratic” peril, as “nearly two-thirds of voters feel that an election has been stolen from them”, then a “budgetary” peril, as Paris ap(…) - 20minutes
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