2023-09-15 12:30:05
The senator, president of the Les Indépendants group in the Senate and member of Horizons Claude Malhuret, and the president of the Horizons party and mayor of Le Havre, Edouard Philippe, at the Elysée, in March 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
Back to the basics of politics. Taking the opposite view from Emmanuel Macron, who built a movement dedicated to the conquest of power then let it wander, Edouard Philippe, who was secretary general of the UMP, built a “good old political party”, in his words, in the rules of the art. Less than two years after its founding congress, Horizons claims more than 20,000 members and will present candidates in around thirty departments in the senatorial elections on September 24, out of the forty which are renewable.
Claude Malhuret, senator from Allier, president of the Les Indépendants group in the Senate and member of Horizons, maintains that“Edouard Philippe does the job as it should be done. Democratic politics, since Athens, consists of establishing itself in the territories, with executives and elected officials. »
From six or seven today, the number of “Philippist” senators should increase to a dozen, which, at the level of the Senate, where, due to the voting method, the balance of power evolves slowly, is a progression notable. This should allow Claude Malhuret’s group, which is intended to welcome the Horizons senators, to be almost on par with the Macronist group of Côte-d’Or senator François Patriat (called the Rally of Democrats, Progressives and Independents), which should for its part, losing a handful of seats.
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Moreover, “Senators elected with the support of Horizons without being elected themselves will subsequently be able to join us, projects Pierre-Yves Bournazel, general delegate of Horizons. We respect their journey and their pace. The beam continues to work ».
Maneuvers that irritate
Neglecting no aspect of its « job » party leader, Edouard Philippe had a one-on-one lunch with the President of the Republicans of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, on June 28. This irritated the Macronist camp, where we suspect a “deal” between the two men. Because if Renaissance and Horizons are on a joint list in certain departments, such as Paris, the expansionist desire of the “Philippists” irritates the faithful of the Head of State.
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In Marne for example, stronghold of Arnaud Robinet, mayor of Reims and close to Edouard Philippe, Emmanuel Macron’s party will not have a candidate, due to not having been included on the Horizons list. In Val-d’Oise, where Renaissance presents a list led by outgoing senator Alain Richard, 78 years old, former socialist minister, a various right-wing list would be secretly supported by Horizons, it is suspected in the camp of ‘Emmanuel Macron.
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