It started with a question. " His first name is Édouard or Philippe?" It ends with a survey: Edouard Philippe is more popular than Emmanuel Macron. In three years at Matignon, the Prime Minister made his patronymic surname a trademark. That of a renewed Juppeism around its fundamentals, with the defects of its qualities.
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Right to appear stiff, distant to seem cold, loyal to appear weak, all sprinkled with a solid dose of humor. "Serious, without taking yourself seriously," he often sums up. A cocktail that the French only discovered very recently, during the confinement period when, on a regular deadline, the Prime Minister settled into their TV to explain the situation to them. Square, precise and clinical press conferences, unlike the lyric flights of the President of the Republic who one day declares the country at war and later announces the return of happy days.
Meanwhile, Édouard Philippe assumes
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