Legislative elections 2024: Édouard Philippe in the campaign also begins to build his “central block”

Traveling this Wednesday, June 26 in Gard and Hérault, the former Prime Minister held a meeting in the evening in Saint-Georges-d’Orques.

A few days ahead of the truth, it was a sort of Tour de France that ex-Prime Minister Édouard Philippe embarked on to support the 82 candidates running under banner of Horizons, the party he chairs.

After Alsace or the Basque Country, it is in Nîmes, this June 26, then in Saturargues and Sète in the Hérault, that he went by express. Before holding a meeting in Saint-Georges-d’Orques, a village whose mayor, Jean-François Audrin, is the Horizons representative for the department.

"I am not sectarian"

To salute "the courage of commitment" of the Hérault candidates for deputation , "all those in the central block, I'm not sectarian", he assured. And to applaud Jean-François Eliaou, Sarah-Fatima Daudé-Allaoui, Jocelyne Gizardin, Isabelle Autier, Philippe Huppé, and Laurence Cristol.
Before coming, in front of 200 people, without notes, and jacket dropped, for an hour, on an overview of the news.

Dissolution "the shock" and "the surprise"

Du "shock" and the "surprise&amp ;quot; of the dissolution, which he did not wish to comment further, "anger, the fatigue" that it causes, as he says he feels on the ground.

But if the mayor of Le Havre travels the country in this way, it is also to sow the small stones of a political recomposition that he envisages in the form of a political reform. rsquo;une "new parliamentary majority", which would be open "to the pro-European left", and "more stable and more open, broader"than the current presidential majority.

Different from 2017

Because within this "central block" each would keep their identity, with the difference, therefore of what Emmanuel Macron undertook in 2017, when elected officials from the right or the left joined the first day marchers within the same formation.

Put another way: "We want to build something new, not rebuild what has already been."

"Central block, not centrist"

This "central bloc, not centrist, it’s different, will be fundamentally pro-European. With, from the conservative right to the social democratic left, all those, numerous, who do not want to find themselves prisoners of the deadly trap in which they are locked, between LFI and the RN" .

Two training courses of which he detailed at length all the evil he thinks of them, and the danger (in particular of a "financial crisis&quot ;, with regard to their respective programs) which they represent in his eyes.

A Marseillaise was sung at the end of the meeting. Midi Libre – Michael Esdourrubailh

First priorities revealed

Before starting to lift the veil on the way in which he intends "occupy this enormous space that needs to be structured, between RN and LFI" .

And to evoke "the urgency to adapt and transform the country, we cannot stay still in a world that is moving& quot;, priority projects (education, health policy, immigration, justice), but "school is the problem that we must first resolve if we want to resolve all the others".

An ovation and a Marseillaise later, Édouard Philippe could hit the road again. And go lay a new first stone of its "central block", still in Occitanie, in Toulouse this time.

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