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DOUDOU TAKES ACTION

ED TALKS . Unless you spent the weekend in airplane mode, you couldn’t have missed the launch of Horizons, Edouard Philippe’s new party, on Saturday in Le Havre. However, if you treated yourself to a little news detox, counting on Playbook to bring you up to date this morning, know that the former Prime Minister, who had taken care of the form, gave buy phone number list a founding speech of nearly two hours, without notes, without a lectern, a simple microphone attached behind his ear. In short, like Steve Jobs, with a tie added. A speech summarized by l’Express , l’Opinion , and Libé .

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it was a “new political offer,” in his words, that the mayor what is customer loyalty of Le Havre had to present to an assembly composed of 160 mayors and 600 local elected officials, according to the organizers. With PowerPoint in hand, Philippe explained that he wanted to build a “strategy for 2050” and listed the ten “values” and ten “battles” — rather of the classic kind — that drive him. Let us cite, for example, freedom and social justice for the values, the illusion of “magic money” and the spirit of defeat for the battles.

Nota bene . Not ignoring the slight nervousness caused by his bookyourlist shenanigans on the LREM side (as recounted here , here , here , here , or even here ), the former head of government took care to assure several times, then in the JDD yesterday morning, that he was “not a candidate for anything” in 2022, that he would support Emmanuel Macron for his re-election and that he was not even there to “criticize” the power in place.

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