Jean-Christophe Lagarde paid tribute to Édouard Philippe on Friday noon on Europe 1. The president of the UDI said all the good he thought of the work done by the mayor of Le Havre, who resigned from his post as Prime Minister on Friday morning. "I believe that there will be a political turning point in the five-year Manuel Macron and that this political turning point, in this case, is not shared by Edouard Philippe (...) I am not convinced that it was Emmanuel Macron who separates from Edouard Philippe, because the past weeks have shown that it was Edouard Philippe who does not want to follow, "he analyzed.
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"The French saw that he was the more solid of the two"
"I am not in his majority, but it is a Prime Minister that nobody knew and who showed his aptitude, his capacity to govern France and sometimes to resist the President of the Republic when he sometimes thought more about his future presidential campaign to the interests of the country ", continues Jean-Christophe Lagarde. "Edouard made great reforms, he admirably withstood the shock of a crisis that we had never imagined, never experienced. There were obviously errors in the management of the crisis, but overall, the French people saw that it was the more solid of the two. "
The president of the UDI finally welcomes the choice of Edouard Philippe to leave, rather than clinging to his folding seat. "We can see that a change in political life is taking shape. And if Edouard Philippe did not agree with this political line, he leaves. It is still good to prefer his convictions rather than stay in Many people who would do anything to be a minister, even a prime minister. He doesn't. I take my hat off to him. "