Will he be on the starting grid for the Elysée race? Former sovereignist minister Philippe de Villiers said on Tuesday that he "did not rule out anything" for the presidential election of 2022, eager to "restore order" and "give the countryside a chance".
"I do not exclude anything," said on RMC the founder of the Puy-du-Fou leisure park in Vendée, asked if he would be a presidential candidate in 2022.
"I'm not excluding anything for 2022!"
Philippe de Villiers in Brunet Neumann on RMC. pic.twitter.com/xl0meSPApX
"I am not considering anything, but I am not closing any door, or door or window," added the former MEP, author of a new pamphlet ("Les Gaulois réfractaires Demand des comptes au Nouveau Monde", Fayard) published on June 10 and which has just joined the very selective top 20 of the best sales, all genres and formats combined.
"I'm sick of it, I can't take it anymore. I am 71 years old, I am in good health and I say to myself I do not want to die like a coward, "explained the former Secretary of State for Culture of Jacques Chirac.
"We let everything slide into the abyss"
"Today we must restore the authority of the state, restore order in the country, restore the honor of justice and the police, restore sovereign functions, and rebuild an industry, rebuild agriculture, remake a country, giving the countryside a chance, remaking small towns where you can breathe. Everything is to resume, we let everything slide to the abyss, “said the former elected official.
For him, France "is sliding into communitarianism, into separatism" with "foreign enclaves [...] where one no longer lives in French, where one cannot think of French, and where there to activists of racialism who would like to impose on us the impeachment of our heritage ”.
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Philippe de Villiers considers that "sovereignty is identity or nothing" and accuses politicians of having "a confined mind". The former MP was already a candidate in the presidential election in 1995 and 2007. His best score, obtained 25 years ago, is 4.74%.