Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe criticized the decision to dissolve the National Assembly. He affirms that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, “killed the presidential majority” and that it would therefore be necessary to “create a new majority”.
Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said Thursday that Emmanuel Macron had “killed the presidential majority” by deciding to dissolve the National Assembly, and that it would therefore be necessary to “create a new majority”.
Pressed with questions by TF1 Info on the surprise dissolution on the evening of the defeat of the Macronist camp in the European elections against the far right, the boss of the Horizons party, an ally of the Head of State, suggested his disagreement. “I would have the opportunity to say it”, “it’s a political fact” and we have to live with it for the moment, he replied.
“He has decided to dissolve it. Fine, let’s move on”
“I prefer to concentrate on telling the French that they are not prisoners of a choice between the extremes. And that there is an alternative which is not the reproduction of what existed,” he said. he adds. According to Édouard Philippe, “it was the President of the Republic who killed the presidential majority”. “He dissolved it. It wasn’t me who left, it wasn’t rebels who would have upset him,” continued the first head of government of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term.
“He has decided to dissolve it. Very well, we move on, but something else cannot be exactly the same thing as before, so it means creating a new parliamentary majority which will operate on different bases” , he said. “I’m ready for it and that’s what I’m trying to build.”