LIVE - Presidential 2027: “This “can only bring to the country”, Emmanuel Macron welcomes the candidacy of Teddy Riner

Raphaël Glucksmann announced a plan of 200 billion euros of public investment over the five-year term to finance his “ecological revolution” project, the “first 100 days” of which he presented on Monday to initiate the “exit from fossil fuels”.

To achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 and the stabilization of the debt by 2032, the social-democratic left-wing presidential candidate wants to proclaim a “state of ecological emergency”, include the principle of an “ecological Republic” in the Constitution, and adopt “an ecological programming law”.

“The environment must become a front-line subject in presidential campaigns,” believes Anne Bringault, from the Climate Action Network (RAC). “We know that the summer left its mark on the French, whether through the rise in the price of fossil fuels, unlivable housing at 35 degrees or fires. It goes beyond climate activists and guides campaigns,” she adds.

“Nothing we are proposing can escape the forks of the question of financing,” explained Raphaël Glucksmann during a press conference in Paris, in the presence of Senator Yannick Jadot, responsible for implementing this “ecological revolution”, which plans to “more than double the production of renewable energy by 2035”, but also to “sustain nuclear energy”.

Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on Monday welcomed the candidacy of five-time Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner, during a trip to Chartres (Eure-et-Loir). “First, I welcome him,” the president of Horizons declared to the press, regarding the 37-year-old judoka, who formalized his entry into the race for the Élysée.

Édouard Philippe expressed his admiration for “an immense French champion”, “an exceptional sportsman”, believing that the themes put forward by Teddy Riner were in line with his own convictions. “I'm sure he launched his campaign... talking about work, talking about effort, talking about authority,” he said. “I think these are themes in which I find myself and in which many French people find themselves,” he added.

Without mentioning the possibility of a rapprochement with the new candidate, who claims to be “neither right nor left”, the mayor of Le Havre stressed that “no one is more legitimate than another to run a presidential campaign”.

Dominique de Villepin welcomed Monday the surprise candidacy for the presidential election of judo champion Teddy Riner, “a man of experience”, and encouraged figures from civil society to get involved in the campaign. “It turns out that I know him well, Teddy Riner, and that I like him a lot,” reacted the former Prime Minister of Chirac, who himself harbors Elysian ambitions.

The judoka is “a man of experience” whose “voice counts, since his career arouses the admiration of all,” he said during a press conference intended for international media. “So I am delighted to see that he is concerned” by the presidential election, added Dominique de Villepin. He judges that civil society figures have turned away from electoral campaigns.

“We have seen too often in recent decades entire sections of our national life and I am thinking of the cultural sector, I am thinking of the arts sector, losing interest or staying away from deadlines,” he said.