Their collaboration began on May 15, 2017. On this date, Emmanuel Macron, newly elected President of the Republic, decided to appoint Édouard Philippe as Prime Minister. The politician, now president of the Horizons party, decided to leave office on July 3, 2020 after an initial COVID-19 crisis and a confinement that shook France and the Élysée.
Besides this complicated end of “mandate” for Édouard Philippehe still has good memories of his “experience” as Prime Minister and his collaboration with Emmanuel Macronas he assured this Saturday, October 14, 2023. In fact, the politician suffering from alopecia and vitiligo was the guest of What an era on France 2. Léa Salamé wanted to know more about the relationship that the former Prime Minister maintains today with the Head of State.
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Edouard Philippe more frank than ever about his relationship with Emmanuel Macron
“I don’t have many bad memories while I was Prime Minister with him, even if we didn’t absolutely agree on everything”he assured straight away when the presenter displayed a photo of the Head of State on the screen so that his guest could say what he thought of him. “He was President of the Republic, it was he who was elected, so I was there to try to implement the program to which he had committed and which I found very largely to my taste. I haven’t had any difficult or unpleasant moments. A few disagreements, generally resolved discreetly”he continued.
Léa Salamé then reminded him: “He (Emmanuel Macron) says that you are his friend, you say that it is not friendship.” A question to which Édouard Philippe once again demonstrated frankness. “Listen, for me, what is a friend? For me, a friend is someone you call when things are not going well. I do not place my relationship with the President of the Republic on on the level of friendship, it would be totally inappropriate on my part”he confided before specifying: “So, he’s someone with whom, when I’m with him, I have good times. It’s not totally impossible that sometimes I annoy him, it’s not impossible that sometimes he annoys me. annoys. But it’s part of life. In the end, I take full responsibility for what I did with him for three years.” A cordial relationship between the two men, but not friendship.
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