
The three figures from the right and the center are competing for the electorate in a pre-campaign marked by programmatic differences.
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The three men governed together between September 2024 and October 2025 before the Horizons and LR parties left the Lecornu team.
Édouard Philippe (Horizons), Gabriel Attal (Renaissance) and Bruno Retailleau (Les Républicains, LR) present themselves as rivals in this presidential pre-campaign. Party leaders who governed together between September 2024 and October 2025 - before Horizons and LR opted not to participate in the Lecornu team - the three men are competing for an electorate ranging from the center to the right.
Facing Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, all claim a liberal approach to the economy and a pro-European line, but demonstrate fundamental differences. While the two former prime ministers promise to get closer, will their programs allow a single candidacy, which the best placed in the polls, Édouard Philippe, is calling for? Or will they prevent this union that Bruno Retailleau swears he does not want to join, in order to stay away from the “heirs of Emmanuel Macron”? Pensions, Constitution, immigration, Europe: Le Figaro scrutinizes four major themes of their projects.

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