Special envoy to Sarthe and Mayenne
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Édouard Philippe enters the Laval barracks (Mayenne), shakes hands and stops in front of a gleaming Ford vehicle.
A collector's item dated 1938, which firefighters used to provide emergency first aid.
“It’s not bad, it looks good!”,
he said this Thursday.
The day before, on the lawn of a racecourse, he displayed the same enthusiasm:
“I like racing.”
The leader of the Horizons party is paradoxical.
He is moving towards the 2027 presidential election, but he is lingering more and more wherever he goes.
“My grandmother said: ‘You have to take your time to avoid losing it,’”
he laughs.
On Thursday, he completed a three-day visit to Sarthe and Mayenne.
The first in a series of
“slow trips”
which should take him to Reunion, New Caledonia, Franche-Comté… A tour of the sub-prefectures
“à la Chirac”,
says his Angevin friend Christophe Béchu, minister of the transition…
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