Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on 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.”
Answering questions from TF1 Info about the unexpected dissolution on the evening of the defeat of the Macronist camp by the far right in the European elections, the head of the Horizons party, an ally of the head of state, expressed his disagreement.
“Listen, he made the decision alone, sir; we may well wonder whether the decision is timely or inappropriate, risky or opportunity-producing. I know what I think about it. But I don’t really want to give many comments, because I think the main thing is to talk about the upcoming elections,” he said at first.
“I would have the opportunity to say this,” “this is a political fact,” and we will have to live with it for now, he added.
“New majority on different bases”
“I prefer to focus on telling the French that they are not prisoners of a choice between extremes. And that there is an alternative that is not a reproduction of what existed,” he added.
According to Edward Philippe, “it was the President of the Republic who killed the presidential majority.” “He dismissed it. It wasn’t me who left, and it wasn’t the rebels who would have upset him,” continued the first head of Macron’s five-year government.
“He decided to disband it. Very well, we are moving on to something else, but something else cannot be exactly the same as before, so this means creating a new parliamentary majority that will operate on different bases,” he said. “I’m ready for it and that’s what I’m trying to build.” »
Source: Le Parisien
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