Presidential 2027: who would benefit from Gabriel Attal withdrawing from the race for the Élysée?

The closer the presidential election approaches, the more calls for unity multiply within the central bloc. And for good reason: as it stands, the Macronist camp is heading straight towards elimination in the first round, in favor of a duel between Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to which almost all the polls lead. Problem: his two contenders are struggling to find common ground to prevent such a final. Neither Édouard Philippe nor Gabriel Attal have decided to line up purely and simply behind the other, each advocating, according to their own method, a gathering of variable geometry. In vain.

At the beginning of October, the first proposed a union around a common project, inviting party leaders from the right and the center to meet the following month to build the “foundation of a government program”. An invitation that has remained a dead letter to this day. The second, at the origin of a “liaison committee” – supposed to define the contours of a future rapprochement…