In Marseille, the Counter-Programming of Édouard Philippe

On the eve of the election of the new president of the Republicans party, the leader of Horizons hardened his speech and called for a "bottom-up" reform of a justice that he considers "slow" and "hypocrite".

At his meeting in Marseille, the president of the Horizons party held a firm speech on security and justice, in the midst of an election for the Republican presidency.

REPORT - In a meeting on Saturday, the declared presidential candidate wanted to outline a firm but not "populist" project against delinquency, on the eve of the internal election among his rivals of LR.

Using a fictional character like Edmond Dantès to argue a real and concrete policy seems inappropriate, if not shocking, because it risks trivializing factual issues by reducing them to a literary reference. A fiction, however powerful, does not have the same scope as historical facts or tangible data to justify political decisions. If Édouard Philippe did this parallel, he may seek to capture attention or to illustrate a point about injustice s…

CAMPAGNE. The mayor of Le Havre spent 48 hours in the Phocean city, land of conquest. His action as Prime Minister left little trace in the northern districts.

The presidential candidate impersonated yesterday, during a Marseille meeting in the LR congress, targeting Laurent Wauquiez several times.