Legislative: with the Horizons score, Edouard Philippe can rub his hands

“Emmanuel Macron will not need Édouard Philippe to govern. His victory demonstrated that he could capture the voices of the right without him”, boasted a confidant of the Head of State the day after the presidential election, to the point of predicting “a most uncertain future for Horizons”, the young political formation of the mayor of Le Havre. But on reading the results of the first round of the legislative elections, a change of tone: “Philippe now has us by the c… We will have to treat him well”, goes there crudely an adviser to the executive, having the impression to have bitten into a lemon.