“Édouard Philippe, the long walk of the former Prime Minister”
Édouard Philippe, at the Élysée Palace, on March 27. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP COUNTERPOINT – Whoever seeks the supreme function in 2027 must exist without denying his own camp. And therefore to…
“Édouard Philippe, the long walk of the former Prime Minister”
Édouard Philippe, at the Élysée Palace, on March 27. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
COUNTERPOINT – Whoever seeks the supreme function in 2027 must exist without denying his own camp. And therefore to be at the origin of proposals that mark. As it does on immigration.
Some, even among his relatives, wondered where was Édouard Philippe. The former prime minister sat nonchalantly at the top of all popularity barometers, but his voice did not set the pace for political debate.
He had been watched on the retreats; he had remained in the background. It was a surprise. After having suggested, more alludingly than insistently, a postponement of the retirement age to 67, he had contented himself with approving the Borne-Dussopt reform without leading the battle on the front line.
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In this long and rowdy sequence, he did not play the “Mr. More» of the reform. Perhaps so as not to add to the difficulties of the executive. For having been there and having led a pension reform himself under the criticism of the eternals inclined to deplore errors of method at the first headwind.
“Loyal but free”
Thus, Édouard Philippe did not bother the Macron-Borne couple, but he did not help either. LR refusing against all odds to be more demanding…
