Their respective entourages rustle little nasty phrases about the other side. At the heart of the discord, what place should be given to the troops of Edouard Philippe and his Horizons movement in the legislative elections? How many constituencies? The former head of government wants an independent group in the Assembly to enjoy some political and financial freedom. On the side of the Elysée, we are hardly inclined to give him such a gift. Edouard Philippe is deemed unreliable. His support during the campaign was deemed too scanty and sometimes clumsy. The macronists accuse him of having repeated a little too much that Marine Le Pen could win.
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Two things. First, the appearance of slingers within its majority. He was deeply marked by the episode of the socialist rebels. In the end, their attitude had prevented François Hollande from representing himself. Minister of the Economy, Emmanuel Macron had tried to convince them one by one to vote the law which bore his name, it was in 2015. He had failed and Manuel Valls had to trigger the 49-3. No question that the fate of the second five-year term is at the mercy of the attitude of this or that autonomous group in the Assembly.
However, his dream of forming a large single party of the majority has vanished. And even the common label, “Together citizens”, baptized with great fanfare in the fall by the trio François Bayrou-Richard Ferrand-Edouard Philippe has disappeared. Apart from La République en Marche and Le Modem, all the little chapels of the majority are trying to pull the blanket over themselves. Starting with the newcomer, Horizons.
Of course, on the strength of his popularity rating, he already has his sights set on the presidential election of 2027. However, for the first time, the majority knows that the president who has just been re-elected will not be able to stand again. It gives desires of independence… It is besides already seen, even before the establishment of the five-year term renewable only once. Re-elected in 1988, François Mitterrand immediately saw the PS escape him to offer himself to Pierre Mauroy rather than his foal Laurent Fabius. Then his disciples were torn during the disastrous socialist congress of Rennes.
As for Jacques Chirac, barely re-elected in 2002, he had been challenged by Nicolas Sarkozy who rushed into the stretcher and proclaimed that he was thinking of the presidential election and “not just shaving“! Basically, the current tensions between the Head of State and Edouard Philippe are an indication that in the majority, the post-Macron era has already begun…