Traveling this Wednesday, June 26 in Gard and Hérault, the former Prime Minister held a meeting in the evening in Saint-Georges-d’Orques.
A few days ahead of the truth, it was a sort of Tour de France that former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe embarked on to support the 82 candidates running under the banner of Horizons, the party that he presides.
After Alsace or the Basque Country, it was to Nîmes, this June 26, then to Saturargues and Sète in Hérault, that it went by express. Before holding a meeting in Saint-Georges-d’Orques, a village whose mayor, Jean-François Audrin, is the department’s Horizons representative.
“I am not sectarian”
To greet “the courage of commitment” Hérault candidates for deputy, “all those in the central bloc, I am not sectarian”, he assured. And to applaud Jean-François Eliaou, Sarah-Fatima Daudé-Allaoui, Jocelyne Gizardin, Isabelle Autier, Philippe Huppé, and Laurence Cristol.
Before coming, in front of 200 people, without notes, and jacket dropped, for an hour, on an overview of the news.
Dissolution “the shock” and “the surprise”
Of “choc” and some “surprise” of the dissolution, which he did not wish to comment further, at “anger, fatigue” that it provokes, as he says he feels it on the ground.
But if the mayor of Le Havre travels the country in this way, it is also to sow the small stones of a political recomposition which he envisages in the form of a “new parliamentary majority”which would be open “to the pro-European left”et “more stable and more open, wider”than the current presidential majority.
Different from 2017
Because within this “bloc central” everyone would keep their identity, unlike what Emmanuel Macron undertook in 2017, when elected officials from the right or the left joined the first day marchers within the same formation.
Put another way : “We want to build something new, not rebuild what has already been.”
“Central bloc, not centrist”
Ce “central bloc, not centrist, it’s different, will be fundamentally pro-European. With, from the conservative right to the social-democratic left, all those, numerous, who do not want to find themselves prisoners of the death trap in which they are locked, between LFI and the RN”.
Two formations of which he detailed at length all the evil he thinks of them, and the danger (in particular of a “financial crisis”with regard to their respective programs) that they represent in its eyes.
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First priorities revealed
Before we begin to lift the veil on how he hears “occupy this enormous space that must be structured, between RN and LFI”.
And to evoke “the urgency to adapt and transform the country, we cannot stay still in a changing world”priority projects (education, health policy, immigration, justice), but “school is the problem that we must first resolve if we want to resolve all the others”.
An ovation and a Marseillaise later, Édouard Philippe could hit the road again. And go lay a new first stone of its “bloc central”still in Occitanie, in Toulouse this time.
