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2020-12-13T18:36:33.363Z


CHRONIC. What is Edouard Philippe playing at? According to our information, he is increasing the number of meetings with his former ministers and elected officials. S


Every day at 7 pm, find “Behind the scenes”, our column on the underside of political life.

Its slender silhouette is easily recognizable.

Edouard Philippe was seen Tuesday in the corridors of the National Assembly.

He was going to “drink an aperitif” with his old friend Christophe Castaner, who “always has a Corona

(Editor's note: the former head of government’s favorite beer)

in the fridge just in case”.

A week earlier, we reported on the dinner of the former Prime Minister with Gérald Darmanin in the midst of the article 24 crisis. We also learn that he recently had lunch with one of his former ministers, still in office today, to whom he confided that the famous croque monsieur de Matignon are the only thing he lacks in his new life… It doesn't look like!

In public, Edouard Philippe gives interviews with the mayor of Le Havre, behind the scenes, he is the favorite “PM” of the French.

Why see ex-ministers so often?

Why also maintain a network of local elected officials?

The answer, Emmanuel Macron gives it to Brut: “Maybe I will not be able to be a candidate.

"In this case (and only in this case), it will take recourse ... Now Edouard Philippe ticks many boxes.

The president's electoral base has shifted to the right between 2017 and today.

Philippe is on the right.

Republicans are struggling to find a candidate.

We can bet that the “Philippe perspective” (the man who wanted, for example, a pivotal age for retirement) does not make their task easier.

Health and economic crisis and terrorist threat, the French are afraid.

Philippe reassured them during the first confinement to the point of being their favorite political figure today… In short, it seems indeed that it is wise to keep a Corona cool… Just in case.

Source: leparis

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