The former Prime Minister concluded in the presence of Elisabeth Borne the parliamentary days of her party by reaffirming his support for the government, so that “the five -year term is not a lost five -year term”.
Le Monde with AFP
“Some people wonder”, “some suppuate”, but “horizons exists in the majority. If, if”. For the conclusion of parliamentary days of horizons in Fontainebleau, Friday September 16, Édouard Philippe wanted to be clear. While his ambitions supposed for 2027 annoyed in the presidential camp, he reiterated his support for the policy led by Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne, in the presence of the Prime Minister.
“We support the President of the Republic and we want to make sure (…) that this five -year term is not a lost five -year period but a five -year period which allows our country to continue to prepare, to continue to move forward, to Continue to reform, “said Philippe in a speech of more than an hour, in the muffled framework of the municipal theater of Fontainebleau.
He addressed himself directly to Elisabeth Borne: “We are a component of the majority and we are proud and happy (…) to support the Prime Minister, to support you, Élisabeth, in a task of which many people know that she is very complicated, me first, “developed the former Prime Minister.
He also addressed the question of pensions, and in particular the hypothesis of the inclusion of a reform within the framework of the social security financing bill. “We will be behind you to improve our pension system in the sense of more justice and more work, than you choose to do so in October, in December, in March, when you want, we will be there,” said The mayor of Le Havre to the applause.
“Mutual requirement”
Several parliamentarians of horizons have expressed reservations in recent days as to the choice of PLFSS, which would not necessarily allow to initiate a “global reform” of pensions.
Speaking the last, Élisabeth Borne paid tribute to the different components of her relative parliamentary majority. “We are three political forces with their history and their sensitivity. My role and that of the government is that they are all heard, respected, associated. Our majority is based on three pillars. Horizons is one of them” , she said.
“This implies a mutual requirement. On the side of the government and the majority, it is a duty of transparency. It is the need to inform you of the agreements found and the negotiations in progress. This is how we will avoid misunderstandings, “continued the Prime Minister, while Horizons deputies, during the summer parliamentary session, had voted an amendment against Minister Bruno Le Maire about local authorities.
Be careful “at the overall cost” of anti-inflation measures
Friday, the party members of the party elected their president, Christian Estrosi, the only candidate. The mayor of Nice, who has the rank of vice-president of horizons, hoped that “at no time in the next finance law, our communities are considered a variable of adjustment”.
m. Philippe tackled many subjects – nuclear, justice, debt – of his “strategy” for France. He also called for “lucidity” in the face of the “brutality” of inflation, even if “we have to pay extremely attention” to the “overall cost of these measures”. Horizons will support “all the initiatives that will be taken to better target them”, he said.
Member of Horizons, the mayor of Reims, Arnaud Robinet, wished, in an interview with the JDD, that Edouard Philippe quickly asserts himself “as a candidate for 2027”. The party will organize a congress in the first quarter of 2023.