According to Macron, Édouard Philippe wants to secure re-election with the Horizons party. Supporters of the president suspect, however, that the popular politician may have selfish goals.
Six months before the presidential election in France, ex-prime minister Édouard Philippe presented his new conservative party called “Horizons”.
His political goal for 2022 is for French President Emmanuel Macron to be re-elected, said the 50-year-old in Le Havre in northern France.
Philippe is one of the most popular politicians in France. He headed Macron’s center government from May 2017 to early July 2020. The politician, who originally came from the civil rights camp, won the local election as mayor of the port city of Le Havre at the end of June 2020, where he had previously been mayor. Philippe never belonged to Macron’s party “La République en marche” (LREM).
Suspicion from Macron’s supporters
The name “Horizons” was chosen because you have to look very far ahead, says Philippe. France needs a strategy up to the year 2050. Macron has not yet announced his candidacy for the presidential elections next spring. The first ballot is scheduled for April 10, 2022.
In his approximately one and a half hour speech, Philippe called, among other things, for a return to austerity and pleaded for a pension reform. Some Macron supporters are suspicious of the founding of the party. They fear a split in their party and suspect that Philippe wants to position himself for the presidential election in 2027.
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