“I will be a candidate”: Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announces he will run in the next presidential election

Édouard Philippe annonce être candidat pour le scrutin de 2027. MAXPPP – CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

The former Prime Minister during Emmanuel Macron's first term has announced that he is a candidate for the next presidential election.

“I will be a candidate for the next presidential election”: former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has made his candidacy official, in an interview with the weekly magazine Le Point published Tuesday evening.

“The French will decide”

“I am preparing to propose things to the French. What I will propose will be massive. The French will decide", explains the president of the Horizons party, Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron from 2017 to 2020.

Questioned elsewhere on Matignon and the Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve hypotheses, the mayor of Le Havre responds that he will support "any Prime Minister chosen in a political space that goes from the conservative right to social democracy".

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