Édouard Philippe assured that the "incident" of the aborted merger between his Horizons and Agir party, a source of tension with Emmanuel Macron, was "closed", and reactivated his conditional participation in the common house of the majority, indicated Wednesday from sources within Horizons.
The former Prime Minister, who met his party's political bureau on Tuesday evening,
“said that the incident is closed.
There is no longer any subject with Agir, the merger proposal no longer exists”
, declared the secretary general of Horizons, the mayor of Angers Christophe Béchu.
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The former Prime Minister underlined that it was a question of not
"serializing while three-quarters of the members of Agir have already joined Horizons: the connection on the ground is made"
, he added. .
The rapprochement between the two components of the right wing of the majority had been prevented by Emmanuel Macron, creating tensions in the philippiste camp which perceived this maneuver as purely vexatious.
In order to signify his disagreement, Mr. Philippe had suspended his participation in Together citizens!, the structure overseeing the majority for the presidential and legislative campaigns.
“Piping subjects”, according to Édouard Philippe
Tuesday evening, the meeting of around thirty Horizons executives, some of whom were at the new headquarters on Avenue d'Iéna, marked a de-escalation in the protest.
Édouard Philippe explained that
“we were not going to stay on piping subjects”.
“But it goes without saying that each other will talk to each other.
And if the common house begins to take an interest in the substance and the entry into the countryside, we obviously have a vocation to find our place there
, ”explained Christophe Béchu.
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“The link is constant, there is a real desire to work together on the ideas and substance of the campaign. So as soon as the opportunity arises, we will meet again
,” added MP Thomas Mesnier, spokesperson for Horizons.
Tuesday noon, a working lunch bringing together the executives of the majority around the organization of the campaign was held at the headquarters of La République en Marche, without a representative of Horizons.
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"They are still very sensitive"
, laughed a majority lay on Tuesday, judging
"not serious"
that Édouard Philippe slammed the door of Together citizens!,
"even if he sulks until 'at the end of the campaign'.
His party, which recruited its first employee on Wednesday, is being structured: 124 municipal committees were launched last weekend, and a hundred more should be by the end of the month.
An “assembly of mayors” will also be installed soon, whose president will be destined to become N.2 of the party.
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