Guillaume Tabard: "A central figure, a side party"

Édouard Philippe sees far - by 2050. But he must act quickly to define his place in the outgoing majority and, even more, that which would result from a possible re-election of Emmanuel Macron.

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The mayor of Le Havre is in a paradoxical position.

He is the most popular French political figure of the moment, which makes his expression expected, listened to, sometimes even feared.

And from that point of view, the launch of his party, Horizons, was a success;

in any case the political event of the week.

But, leader of the majority that he was for three years, he is forced, in order to exist, to be content with a place of right winger.

This role is necessary.

Édouard Philippe is doubly right when he recalls that despite the reassuring polls of the moment, the re-election of Emmanuel Macron

and that

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The game will therefore be played in 2022 on the ability to attract voters - and not just elected officials, no

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