“I will be a candidate in the next presidential election.” Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe made his candidacy official in an interview with the weekly The Point published Tuesday evening. “I am preparing to propose things to the French. What I will propose will be massive. The French will decide.”explains the president of the Horizons party, Emmanuel Macron’s prime minister from 2017 to 2020.
Although the mayor of Le Havre’s ambitions for the Elysée were hardly a mystery, particularly given his constant popularity in the polls, Mr Philippe had never publicly stated his presence on the starting line in 2027. “It is often said that for a presidential election you should not want anything else. I agree with that.”insisted Mr. Philippe, saying he was ready, even in the event of an early presidential election.
On the substance, the former resident of Matignon evokes in particular four perils which France must face in the current period: the peril “democratic”the danger “budgetary”the danger of “immobility” and the danger of “public order and security”.
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Mr. Philippe says that what he remembers most about the legislative election results is: “the ungovernable nature of an Assembly without any clear majority.” But also that in his eyes “The New Popular Front bloc is smaller than that of the central bloc.”
Asked about Matignon and the Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve hypotheses, the mayor of Le Havre replied that he would support “any prime minister chosen in a political space that ranges from the conservative right to social democracy”.
“All government parties should have as their primary objective to promote the stabilization of political life”Mr. Philippe urges again. A message addressed in particular to his former political family of the Republicans: “The right must get involved. By refusing to participate in this central bloc, it is pushing the whole thing towards the left.”he emphasizes.
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