Presidential election 2027: Edouard Philippe accuses Jean-Luc Mélenchon of having a “communitarian vision” and of wanting an “administered economy”

If the French had to choose between "the extreme right" of Marine Le Pen and "the radical left", "we would have both for the long term", warned Édouard Philippe on Saturday November 7, attacking the "communitarian vision" and "the administered economy" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. "Today, the presidential election is a progressive polarization" between "the candidate of the extreme right and the candidates of the radical left", where "everyone who is perceived as being in the middle is required to have to choose between order and chaos", estimated the Horizons candidate during a public meeting in La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône). Six months before the presidential election, those who still refuse the primary of the right and the center must now go to the Var, to Saint-Raphaël, where the ninth edition of the Rencontres de l'avenir is being organized.

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon presents his program at Le Bourget. After Clermont-Ferrand last month and before Le Havre next month, La France insoumise returns this weekend to the Paris region, where it is most established, with a meeting at the Bourget exhibition center, in Seine-Saint-Denis, from 3 p.m. As of Friday, 17,000 activists had registered for this event, and up to 20,000 people are ultimately expected. This event follows the release in bookstores, the day before, of the presidential program of the rebels, the new version of "The Future in Common", with 1,069 proposals.

• Marine Le Pen criticizes the LFI program. “The La France insoumise program is not a project to straighten out the country. It is a project to dismantle France. It pushes to its conclusion the logic of deconstruction initiated by Emmanuel Macron since his arrival in power.” After the publication of an updated version of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's presidential project, Marine Le Pen criticized it on almost every point, Saturday on