He chose his electoral stronghold to announce it.
Saturday, October 9, Édouard Philippe unveiled in Le Havre, the city of which he is mayor, the name of his new political party:
"Horizons"
.
The former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron thus intends
"to ensure that the President of the Republic (...) is re-elected"
.
The choice of the name of a political movement is never the result of chance.
He is like a standard, a banner that carries his colors and his ideas.
What message is Édouard Philippe trying to convey with this name?
What recedes as we approach
One thing is certain, Édouard Philippe intends to set a
"line",
taking up a leitmotif common to political leaders. When we think of
"the horizon"
, the image of the vastness of the sky imposes itself on us. If we refer to the definition given by Larousse,
"the horizon"
, borrowed through Latin, from the Greek
horizôn
(kuklos), designates a line ...
"imaginary"
. It is also, as the French Academy notes, a
"circular line which appears to an observer who is its center, and where the sky and the earth seem to join, the sky and the sea to merge. "
But also what
"moves away as you want to approach"
.
As you will have noticed, each time we advance to try to reach the line, it moves away.
The horizon is essentially untouchable, out of reach.
In poetry, the word also means:
"imaginary space"
, as the Treasure of the French language emphasizes.
A singular image for a political party.
● Terminals, limits
The Greek root of the word
horizein
,
"to limit"
, derived from
horos
,
"limit, limit"
carries in hollow the idea that it is also a
"circle which limits the sight"
, which
"limits" it
. It is that part of the earth's surface where
our sight
“is limited”
, which
“limits the visual field of a person in a place that does not present any obstacle to sight”
, according to the CNRTL. By extension, it is
"the entire expanse of land that is open to view"
, specify the wise men.
Without doubt, it is more this sense that the founder of the party intends to highlight: that of bringing together all fields of vision, that is to say of thought, all ideas.
He himself decreed in the columns of the JDD that he wanted to help Emmanuel Macron to
"widen his base, because no president was reelected on a shrinkage."
Note also the plural of the word.
It is written
"Horizons"
, implying that there is not one guideline, but several.
Not a backbone, but a sum of several political colors.
