Presidential: “I will take risks, you can’t win without them” says Edouard Philippe, discussing his project for 2027

Edouard Philippe is working on a candidacy for 2027 which seems more and more certain. MAXPPP – franck castel

The former Prime Minister reveals himself a little more, this February 11, in the columns of La Tribune Dimanche.

In view of the 2027 presidential election, Edouard Philippe continues to advance his pawns. At his own pace.

“Many people think that 2027 is far away. But I learned that when you prepare something difficult, you have to prepare yourself for it. This is what I do, in a very relaxed way, but at the same time very serious”, declared Emmanuel Macron’s former Prime Minister, January 19 on France Bleu Normandie.

“It would be a shame not to be ready. It would even be criminal not to be ready, even given the stakes”, he had confided a month earlier, on TMC, in the show Daily.

"No opponents in the central block"

This February 11, it's in La Tribune Dimanchethat he raised the subject, as if he intended to take part in the exercise, once a month. Acknowledging that he was working on a project, he told the weekly, referring to the latter: “I will take risks. You don't win without it.”

And to implicitly admit what his strategic positioning could be: “I have no opponent in the central block. I may have disagreements with some, but I know that we are meant to work together”.

A tour in France

In the meantime, reveals La Tribune Sunday, starting this week, Edouard Philippe will begin a series of trips to the French regions, in which, he will systematically spend several days. The idea: take the pulse of the country.

Also in sight, still according to the same source, a major meeting organized around his Horizons party, created at the end of 2021, and which now claims 24,500 members. It will be held in Besançon, in the presence of all local committees and all party executives.

The rallying of a regional president

Who has just joined the president of the Pays de la Loire region, Christelle Morançais, who left Les Républicains in 2022. She announced this Sunday that she was joining Édouard Philippe, who’ she considers herself to be the only one who can embody a “right of assembly”.