Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe hints at a candidacy for the 2027 presidential election

“It would be a shame not to be ready,” declared the mayor of Le Havre on Wednesday evening on the set of the show Quotidien.

He reveals part of his cards. Guest of the show “Quotidien” on TMC on Wednesday December 20, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, president of the Horizons party, suggested that he could run in 2027, during the next presidential election.

More precisely, the current mayor of Le Havre is in the process of putting together a team around this project, he who has been “weaving his web” for many months already, according to several observers. “It would be a shame not to be ready. It would even be criminal not to be ready, even given the stakes”he explained on the Yann Barthès set.

The former tenant of Matignon, who left the government at the time of the Covid-19 crisis, has become a sometimes distant support for Emmanuel Macron. The latest example is his vision of the immigration bill, which he describes as a compromise between the majority and the Republicans, far from the National Rally according to him.

“My intuition is that a fairly large majority of French people agree with the objectives that were defended with this law, in my opinion in the balance that it tried to maintain, and probably in the compromise that we reached. “he reacted, despite disagreements with the text on state medical aid, which he defends, or measures for forfeiture of nationality, which he “do not like”.