After promoting his next book in "Le Point" this week, Édouard Philippe will mark his return to the national media scene by his presence on the 8 pm JT this Sunday evening on France 2. Without revealing his intentions, the former Prime Minister lets speculation run wild a few months before the presidential election.
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The months are now counted before the 2022 presidential election in France.
And this is the moment that the former Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, chose to come back to the light.
This Sunday evening, the mayor of Le Havre, in Normandy, will be the guest of the 20 hours newspaper of France 2. Thursday, he had already started his media return in the weekly
Le Point
to promote his book which comes out on Wednesday next April 7,
Impressions and clear lines
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Édouard Philippe wrote it with his former special adviser who became a member of the European Parliament, Gilles Boyer.
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"The assurance that he will do nothing against Macron, we do not have it"
What intentions should we attribute to the former Prime Minister?
Difficult to say, because the latter does not say anything about it and evades questions about his future.
In any case, his words are closely scrutinized within the political world and in particular on the side of the macronia and the right, without really saying it.
"Here we work. The intrigues, it is not our subject", sweeps thus an adviser of the Elysee.
One way of saying that on the side of Emmanuel Macron, we are managing the crisis, while others are taking advantage of their newfound freedom ... "Nobody talks about it", says this adviser.
The former strongman of Matignon, however, raises many questions in the ranks of the support of the head of state.
Especially when he says "like being in charge".
"The assurance that he will do nothing against Macron, we do not have it", thus loose a Macronist framework with Europe 1. Another, convinced of the loyalty of Edouard Philippe to Emmanuel Macron, affirms on the contrary that the first "makes the beam work for the President".
"If he is not a king, he will be the maker of a king"
Macronie is not the only one to be shaken by the emergence of the silence of Edouard Philippe.
On the side of the Republicans, some dream of seeing him save the right.
A mayor thus hopes that "if he is not a king, he will be the maker of a king".
So many little sentences that show that the former Prime Minister is playing the tightrope walker, making his little music heard.
Without committing the irreparable vis-à-vis the Head of State, but without saying anything either that does not silence speculation ...
Édouard Philippe is in any case refining his right-wing character, concerned about the debt.
An elected official is categorical: "If the opportunity arises, he wants to be in a situation."
The mayor of Le Havre will then have to judge whether his popularity can materialize in the voting intentions.