September 3 () –
Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (2017-2020) announced his candidacy for the 2027 presidential election on Tuesday, while still waiting for President Emmanuel Macron to nominate a candidate to form a government two days after the legislative elections.
“I am going to propose things to the French. What I am proposing will be enormous. The French will decide,” said the current mayor of Le Havre, a city located in the northwest of France, in an interview with the weekly ‘Le Point’.
This is the first time that Philippe has made his presidential aspirations public. The leader of the conservative Horizons party has said that France faces “four dangers”, related to political “immobility”, insecurity and public order, budgets and democracy.
Asked who Macron will ultimately appoint to form a government, Philippe said all parties “should have as their primary objective promoting the stabilisation of political life”.
He said he would opt for a prime minister who would move between conservative and social democratic positions and urged the right to “get involved” in the centre bloc, because if they don’t, they “push everyone to the left”.
The choice for prime minister is finally between the conservative president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, and the socialist Bernard Cazeneuve, who already held the post for a short time between 2016 and 2017 and was previously Minister of the Interior between 2014 and 2016.
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