While France is still without a prime minister, a former tenant of Matignon is coming out of the woodwork on Tuesday, September 3: Edouard Philippe is announcing that he will run for the next presidential election in 2027.
The art of the opposite, while the white smoke for Matignon is still awaited. In an interview given to him PointEmmanuel Macron's former prime minister and the current mayor of Le Havre announces his candidacy for the 2027 presidential elections “I am preparing to propose things to the French. What I propose to them will be massive. The French will decide,” explains the president. of the Horizons party.
If Edouard Philippe's Elysian ambitions were no mystery at all, especially given his steady popularity in the polls, he never publicly announced his presence on the starting line in 2027. “It is often said that for a presidential you should want nothing else, I subscribe to it”, the latter insisted, saying that he is ready, including in case of early presidential elections.
Basically, the former resident of the city of Matignon evokes in particular “four dangers” that France has to face in the current period: “democratic”, “budgetary”, “immobility” and “order and public security”.
“The Right Gets Involved”
Asked also about Matignon and the assumptions of Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve, the mayor of Le Havre replied that he would support “any prime minister elected in a political space that varies from the conservative right to social democracy.” And he added: “all governing parties should have the main objective of promoting the stabilization of political life.”
A message addressed especially to his former political family of Republicans: “the right must get involved. By refusing to participate in this central bloc, it pushes everyone to the left,” he emphasizes.