Does the French Right Have a Chance of Defeating the Far Right in the Election?
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Does the French right have a chance of defeating the far right in the election?
Right-wing Edouard Philippe has officially launched his presidential campaign less than a year ahead of the 2027 election in France. Philippe was the first one to say explicitly he would run for France's highest office. Now, polls give the ex-PM the best chance to defeat the far right. FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman tells us more.
Edouard Philippe officially launched his presidential campaign in Paris. The last candidate to hold a meeting before the summer break, he brought together between 4,000 and 5,000 people. David Revault d'Allonnes decrypts the candidate's seven projects. (Politics).
This Sunday, July 5, was the big campaign kick-off meeting of Édouard Philippe at the Adidas Arena in Paris. Declining a very classic right line, the former Prime Minister fed comparisons with another former Liberal Prime Minister given the presidential favourite: Édouard Balladur...
At his meeting at the Adidas Arena in Paris on Sunday, the former Prime Minister delivered a little more personally and outlined his moderate right-wing project for a "French recovery", in the presence of elected other parties.
The candidate of Horizons, who presented himself as "middle class sons" and "father", overjoyed the "happy" campaign on Sunday. Around his slogan, "Cry in us", he defended "just efforts" in order to break the image of a project "blood and tears" agitated by his opponents.
The favourite of the central bloc for President 2027, which brought together more than 5,000 people on Sunday, is the challenge of maintaining, if not increasing, the advance he has in the polls against his competitors Gabriel Attal and Bruno Retailleau.
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