Arm wrestling,
“I don't hate it.
I don't like losing them, that's all.
The confidence is signed by Édouard Philippe, in the third episode of the documentary
Édouard, my friend on the right.
Eighteen months after leaving Matignon, the mayor of Le Havre has found a tough player he knows well: the President of the Republic.
By preventing his former prime minister from getting his hands on the center-right Agir movement, Emmanuel Macron won a round.
He temporarily deprives him of material and financial means when Édouard Philippe, who created the Horizons party in October, seeks to gain freedom.
A fit of tension that the two men tried to contain during a one-on-one meeting on January 7th.
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