"I will be a candidate in the next presidential election," Edouard Philippe stated in an interview with weekly magazine Le Point on Tuesday, September 3, in reference to the 2027 French presidential election.
"I'm getting ready to make proposals to the French people. What I will propose will be massive. The French will decide," explained the president of the Horizons party, who served as prime minister under Emmanuel Macron from 2017 to 2020. His party remains one of Macron's allies in Parliament.
Asked about Macron's prolonged consultations over choosing the next prime minister and the suggestions of Xavier Bertrand and Bernard Cazeneuve, Philippe replied that he would support "any prime minister chosen from a political spectrum ranging from the conservative right to social democracy."