Three elected officials from Vendée join Edouard Philippe's Horizons party

Three elected officials from Vendée announce, this Friday, November 22, 2024, to join Edouard Philippe's Horizons party: Ludovic Hocbon, mayor of Fontenay-le-Comte, François Blanchet, mayor of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, both councilors regional, and Évelyne Menettrier, regional advisor. Already, in December 2022, the three elected officials had announced with one voice their departure from the Les Républicains party, after the election of Éric Ciotti as head of the party. They thus follow the president of the Region Christelle Morançais who joined Horizons last February.

“Appease the French”

In a press release, sent to Ouest France this Friday, they explain their choice of Edouard Philippe, “candidate for the election to the Presidency of the French Republic in 2027 who will be able to bring together, train, and appease the French around a new project for the nation”. They find themselves in “its humanist and European values, lucid and modern, open and connected to the issues of our time” and in the party manifesto which goes towards “the continued transformation of our country in the face of various societal challenges; freedom to act, to succeed and to express oneself; of the republican order; of humanism; ecological ambition; social justice; decentralization; of national independence and the European project. »