After a week marked by Donald Trump's return to the White House, the presidential candidate considered, during his first major public meeting, that “we are stuck in a political crisis”.
Two years, it's already long. But two years in politics, it is an eternity. If the candidates with the presidential elections, fixed in 2027, are currently reluctant to get out of the wood, Édouard Philippe, he assumes his ambition.
The only pretender of the government coalition to be at this stage on the starting line, the boss of the Horizons party held on Sunday, in this capacity, his first major public meeting at the Palais des Congrès de Bordeaux (Gironde) – city whose former Mayor Nicolas Florian, successor to Alain Juppé between 2019 and 2020, died at 55 years earlier from a stroke. Informed of the news after his speaking, the mayor of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) asked his audience to respect a minute of silence.
Previously, the former Prime Minister had laid the first stone of a long campaign. 2027 will be « A meeting where the French will have to make fundamental choices » pour
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