It took eighteen months for Édouard Philippe and Emmanuel Macron to go from trust to mistrust, from harmony to misunderstanding.
Until now, the former prime minister could arbitrate behind the convenient distinction between the president and his entourage.
With Macron, officially, everything was fine;
it was with his allies, starting with François Bayrou, and his relays that relations were complicated.
With the veto on the merger between Agir and Horizons, it was the Head of State himself who opposed a project desired by the mayor of Le Havre.
He saw it as a personal affront.
Of which he can wonder about the political scope.
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These eighteen months have been marked with small pebbles of discord.
Summer 2020: Philippe wanted to stay at Matignon, but Macron decided otherwise.
The outgoing Matignon took note of this without taking umbrage.
Loyal and respectful of the logic of the Fifth Republic.
Spring 2021, he returns with a book, co-written with his…
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