A new name is being written on the list of contenders to succeed Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée. In an interview with Mediapart posted online on Saturday, former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin indeed lets his ambitions for 2027 shine through, refusing to “not be at the forefront” to lead “the fight”.
“We are facing a historic shock that has very few precedents,” declared the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, when asked about the role he intends to play in the next presidential election. Before launching: “I cannot not participate in this fight. I can’t not be at the forefront.”
“The issue” according to Villepin
However, “the issue is not whether in the end you are a candidate for an election,” he temporizes. “The challenge is to know if your words, at a given moment, can lead the political debate to evolve, lead the political scene to evolve, lead citizens to look at political actors differently.”
-Dominique de Villepin, 71, regularly makes his voice heard both on international news – with the war in the Middle East or the fall of Bashar al-Assad – and on the political instability in France since the dissolution.
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