Edouard Philippe in favor of a “technical agreement” with Les Républicains

“The president will have to appoint a Prime Minister” and “the logic of the institutions is that he turns to the political party, or more precisely to the political organization which is in the majority”, according to the president of Horizons.

Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday July 9 that he was in favor of a “technical agreement” between the presidential camp and the Republicans (LR). “The president will have to appoint a Prime Minister” and “the logic of the institutions is that he turns to the political party, or more precisely to the political organization which is in the majority”, said the former Prime Minister on TF1.

“Today, there is the New Popular Front, it has 182 deputies. But there is another bloc, in the centre, composed of Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons, and LR. Which is not a constituted bloc, I recognise, but which, if we take it as a whole, has 220 deputies, therefore more than the New Popular Front”developed the president of the Horizons party.

“Within this bloc, are we capable of agreeing, not at all on a coalition, (…) but on a technical agreement that allows us to move forward and manage the country’s affairs for at least a year?” continued Edouard Philippe. In a press release, Horizons MPs called on Tuesday evening “political parties from the Republican right to the social democrats to conclude a political agreement” Who “guarantees stability”.

“The government must be led by someone from the Republicans, so that there is a real change in the country”Xavier Bertrand insisted on Tuesday, on the set of “L’Evenement” on France 2. In an interview with Figarothe former leader of the right-wing deputies, Olivier Marleix, judges for his part that “President Macron should appoint a Prime Minister from the Republicans”.