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Presidential 2022: what is Edouard Philippe playing?

2021-03-29T16:28:25.126Z


The former Prime Minister will make his comeback on the media scene with the release of his new book on April 7. In the majority, but has


Less than ten days, April 7 precisely, this is the time left before the release of "Impressions et lines clair" (Ed. JC Lattès), the new book by Edouard Philippe, co-written with his twenty-year-old friend. Gilles Boyer.

A long-awaited publication when the mayor of Le Havre peaks in popularity ratings, raising so many questions about his real intentions - ambitions?

- in the perspective of 2022, than the role it could play within the macronie… and even more on the right.

"You will see ... it will have fun," he recently slipped to a minister who questioned him about the book, without saying more to spare the suspense.

Nine months after his departure from the rue de Varenne, this return to the politico-media arena will also be accompanied by a strong promotion: the good sheets accompanied by a cross interview in a major weekly, a morning radio , a passage in the program "Quotidien" of Yann Barthès, another interview in a national daily, and even the magazine Elle.

“In the coming weeks, we will be asking him questions that we haven't had the opportunity to ask him for a long time.

And he will answer it, "promises Gilles Boyer bluntly, while warning that the book is" neither a chronicle of Matignon, nor a political treaty ".

Rather an essay, in the form of a story, "where we look back on events that he went through, such as the yellow vests, the Covid or Notre-Dame-des-Landes, to learn from it about the functioning of our democracy and the way of deciding ”.

Charles Hufnagel, his former communications advisor at Matignon, shifts: “He was the first to say that we had to learn to live with the virus.

He was also the first to say that we were going to go through storms.

To publish the book today is not to give in to the virus or the storms.

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A very present absent

And we will not finish hearing about Philippe in the months to come.

According to our information, several books on him are in preparation and should be released by the end of the year.

As for the adaptation of his novel "In the shadow", co-written in 2011 with Gilles Boyer, it is progressing and should be on the screens by the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023.

Within the majority, all this agitation is necessarily scrutinized very closely.

Since his departure from Matignon, Philippe is indeed a very present absent.

Little talkative about national political life, he did not for all that deprive himself of increasing the number of meetings, of maintaining his networks, including among the right-wing elected officials who would see him embody a leadership, while keeping languages ​​with his elders. ministers.

Last week, he called Elisabeth Borne, after her testimony in our newspaper on his hospitalization due to Covid.

It also had Sophie Cluzel, to promise him that he would come to support her at the regional ones in Paca.

He even visited Barbara Pompili, officially for a Le Havre dossier.

This did not prevent him from going to see his old office, when he was working with Alain Juppé at the Ministry of Ecology in 2007.

Macron and Philippe had dinner together on March 9

Incursions not necessarily well seen on other levels of power, particularly around Emmanuel Macron where some suspect Philippe of having ulterior motives.

Like that of not supporting the outgoing president in 2022, worse to launch himself?

He sweeps these suspicions with the back of his hand, but little drop the “bad offs” released in recent weeks in the press against him.

Just like the statements of those who swear "that obviously Edouard Philippe will naturally line up behind Emmanuel Macron" at the time of the presidential election.

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The two men had dinner together on March 9.

" It was very nice.

The two spoke to me of a very pleasant moment, ”confides a mutual acquaintance.

“But if there's one thing he can't stand, it's that we speak or think for him.

There are people around the president who feed a kind of paranoia, in mode:

Philippe will end up betraying

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Be careful, because the juppeist can be very sensitive… ”, warns an elected official who knows him well.

Especially since at this stage, the main interested party takes good care not to put all his eggs in the same basket. “When he was at Matignon, he never failed the president. But on July 3, something happened: Emmanuel Macron changed prime minister. And Edouard has regained his full freedom ", insists one of his supporters, who is surprised that around the Head of State, some reproach him for this claimed freedom:" All those who thought that we could separate from him, while keeping it, just make an arithmetic error. You can't have butter and the money of butter in life. “At least everyone is warned… Macron in the first place.

Source: leparis

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