The Élysée village hall is gradually filling up.
In the middle of a break in the parliamentary debates on the pension reform, this Wednesday evening, February 22, Emmanuel Macron welcomes in his palace the gratin of the right won over to his cause.
The ex-sarkozyst Éric Woerth, the mayor Les Républicains (LR) of Meaux, Jean-François Copé, and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, are gathered to honor an old fellow traveler: the former host of Matignon , Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who sees himself pinned to the lapel of his jacket the bright red insignia of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
In his speech punctuated with "rafarinades", the Head of State praised a Chiraquian "
provincial and global, cunning and sincere, hardworking and epicurean, peasant and traveler
".
Without saying a word about his support for Horizons, the party founded by Édouard Philippe to prepare for the presidential election of 2027. In the assembly, however, his former prime minister also responded to the invitation.
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