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In Corsica, Édouard Philippe plans beyond 2022

2022-02-16T19:31:24.663Z


His support for the president did not dispel doubts about his intentions among some majority leaders.


White beard on blue background.

Édouard Philippe takes long strides under the palm trees of downtown Ajaccio, towards the sea.

"It's Gérard Philippe!"

, launches a resident, before recovering.

Another is surprised at his passage:

"It's the one who wants to go after Macron!"

The interested party did not hear the remark, but he smiled.

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Along the clear gulf this Wednesday, the former prime minister did not come to talk about the presidential election.

But rather to test its ambition to embody a pole of attraction on the right.

“His balance sheet is a bit like my balance sheet”

At 51, he is touring the Grand Dukes, with some 250 “municipal committees” inaugurated in cities since he founded a new majority party, Horizons, last October.

With a stated ambition: to define a

“strategy for 2040-2050”

for France, he explains to the 130 voters who came to listen to him speak on Wednesday, at the Palais des Congrès in the Corsican capital.

His friend Laurent Marcangeli, ex-LR mayor of the city, agrees…

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Source: lefigaro

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