The king of silence. If we have recently noted the discretion of several leaders of the common base, such as Laurent Wauquiez for LR or Gabriel Attal for EPR, there is a more blatant silence than the others. Edouard Philippe, founding boss of Horizons, one of the three stores in the presidential camp, and declared candidate for 2027, has not made any declaration since the appointment of François Bayrou. No comment, not even a tweet. Expected this Thursday around the very large Matignon table with the other party leaders – with the exception of the RN, the UDR Ciottists, and LFI – to try to find a way out of the political blockage, the mayor of Le Havre s is eclipsed before the end of the discussions, according to le Figaro. And without having spoken, leaving the leader of his group in the Assembly Laurent Marcangeli to take care of it. But as the country falls into an unprecedented political crisis, this silence ends up raising questions. “He doesn’t like to comment on current events,” one of his close friends only replied. “He speaks to give the meaning of the action, and he has already spoken about the need to form a government from the social democratic left to the republican right,” she continues. Furthermore, the former Prime Minister has not yet officially had any direct contact with the new Prime Minister. “We are not going to express ourselves just for the sake of it, and if we really want to say something, it will very quickly look like red lines,” also justifies a Horizons deputy, “Negotiations must be given a chance.” The truth being that the Philippist troops do not believe, fundamentally, in any coalition culture. “You have to make compromises. Except that to govern, you need a majority, and an opposition. However, we are not going to be bad sleepers, we are of good composition, but for the moment we have nothing to say because we know neither the method nor the project of Bayrou”explains the same elected official. Which suggests that a fairly clear and honest public statement in the current context might be a little too shocking. And to add fuel to the fire, which “Doudou”, the very responsible one, does not want. An example? “We don’t want an early presidential election, but if things continue to go wrong, the pressure will go up a notch.”admits our Horizons MP. In other words: the dark blue cohort is silent, but thinks no less. By Lucie Alexandre.
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