“I have always prioritized – my story bears witness to this – serving someone. I am committed to and with Jacques Chirac. When Jacques Chirac left, I left and I never wanted to come back,” underlined the former Prime Minister, currently an international relations advisor, thus justifying his withdrawal from political life. « Today, it is our country that is at stake, he continued. We cannot be economical, neither with our time, nor with our energy, nor with our ideas. I am leading the fight for what I believe to be a French compass, a French requirement. We will see, at the time of the meetings, who and how. »
“Emmanuel Macron will find himself faced with a personality who, suddenly, risks quickly being bigger than him”
Embodiment of social Gaullism
At 71, Dominique de Villepin, incarnation of social Gaullism, does not hesitate to regularly make his voice heard, both on international news – war in the Middle East, fall of Bashar al-Assad – and on political chaos in which France has been immersed since the dissolution last June.
Regarding the appointment, on Friday, of François Bayrou to Matignon, a position he himself held from 2005 to 2007, he predicts tense relations with the head of state. “Emmanuel Macron will find himself facing a personality who, suddenly, risks quickly being bigger than him,” he declared on the show “C l’hebdo”. François Bayrou renews the presidential equation, he is the heir of Henri IV. As such, he dreamed all his life of reconciling the French. So two years before a presidential election, when you dream of that, you cannot help but entertain the idea of one day being a candidate. François Bayrou will have to resolve a very complex equation, with the other political parties, but also with his own within the central bloc. »
Popular positions on the left
Last July, the former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac considered that the President of the Republic should call “the force that came out on top on election night”, namely the New Popular Front, to govern. “It’s the republican tradition,” he recalled. Before the second round of the legislative elections in June, he also called for voting for the left whenever it found itself facing the RN. A position far from unanimous on the right, much more adept at neither-nor or even rapprochements with the extreme right. Dominique de Villepin has, in fact, entered the good graces of the New Popular Front. A popularity which can also be explained by his positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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