"
Of all the risks
" linked to the Covid crisis, "
the political risk
" seems the most dangerous to former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, not sure that "
the next
" to exercise power "
are as enlightened
" as they are now , he says in a documentary.
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"
The health risk, I think it will eventually be fine
," predicted Édouard Philippe in April 2020, in the third part of the documentary "
Édouard mon pote de droit
", premiered on Sunday at Fipadoc in Biarritz and soon on France 5 .
“
The economic risk, the financial risk
”, too.
“
But then the political risk!
Given the impoverishment, fear, destabilization ... I do not guarantee that the next ones will be as enlightened,
”he worried, at the heart of the first confinement.
In this nearly three-hour film directed by his friend Laurent Cibien and entitled "
Aux
manettes
", Édouard Philippe
looks
back on his three years at Matignon, through regular conversations in his office that capture the atmosphere of the moment, doubts and issues surrounding certain major decisions.
“
Here you manage the imperfect world
,” he explains in 2018 to Laurent Cibien, who has been following his path for nearly twenty years.
But "
what I like fundamentally in the act of governing is to be in the situation where it is you who stick to it
", he adds.
At the beginning of November 2018, we also see Édouard Philippe affirming that the first demonstration of the “
yellow vests
” does
not
“
particularly worry
” him, before backpedaling on the carbon tax “
because a gesture of appeasement was necessary
”, then to release several billion to calm the anger.
“
I'm never a fan of measures that increase debt.
There is a time when it will cost us dearly.
But I'm not a hysteric,
”he slips at the end of 2018, while confiding his concern to one day see France in the same financial situation as Greece.
"
People who say the opposite are nuts,
" he asserts.
