Arthur De Laborde, edited by Juline Garnier 7:50 p.m., May 03, 2022

The Horizons office, launched by Édouard Philippe, was held on Tuesday evening to discuss the candidacies for the legislative elections.

The meeting comes against a backdrop of strong tensions between the former Prime Minister and Emmanuel Macron and while the battle for nominations is not over either.

Battle for the legislative elections on one side, departures from the government on the other.

All Horizons executives met on Tuesday around Édouard Philippe in a political office in Paris.

And even if they deny it, it is the place given to the party for the legislative elections which is at the heart of this meeting.

A hot topic when a first list of nominations, validated by Emmanuel Macron, must potentially be made public this Wednesday.

The Head of State criticizes the former Prime Minister for coveting too many constituencies and for not contenting himself with proposing his candidates in those known as "conquest", that is to say constituencies that are difficult to take.

However, the rule set by the majority consists in giving priority to outgoing deputies, unless the latter has not given satisfaction or does not wish to stand again.

A rule that philippists do not necessarily intend to respect.

Result: the two camps have been watching each other like earthenware dogs for several weeks.

Macronie's heavyweights in the hot seat

At the same time, the Élysée announced that Emmanuel Macron's re-investiture ceremony will be held on Saturday morning.

Then will come the appointment of a new government.

Several ministers have already made it known that they do not want to re-enter.

This is the case of Jean-Baptiste Djebbari in Transport, Cédric O in Digital Transition or even the Secretary of State for Children, Adrien Taquet.

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Doubt persists about the future of a dozen heavyweights in the hot seat: Florence Parly, Roselyne Bachelot, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Éric Dupond-Moretti, Barbara Pompili or even Marlène Schiappa.

According to information from the political service of Europe 1, the latter even attempted a kind of bet since the current Minister of Citizenship refuses to be a candidate for the legislative elections.

But she is doing everything possible in parallel to stay in government.

It remains to be seen who will be in the post of Prime Minister.

Jean Castex has already said he would leave Matignon.

Socialist MP Valérie Rabault claims to have been asked, but she refused because she did not want to bring the retirement project to 65 years old.

In the entourage of the president, it is assured that the post was not offered to anyone.