“Communitarian vision”, “thought police”: the week when Édouard Philippe targeted Jean-Luc Mélenchon to unite his camp

Édouard Philippe walks along the market stalls, shakes hands, stops in front of the fishmonger. On the quay of La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône), this Saturday, November 7, we exchange pleasantries and “good luck”. Alongside the mayor (various right) of the city, Alexandre Doriol, and the former mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, the Horizons candidate in the presidential election is launching his “Grand Tour”: around twenty stops in thirteen regions, between now and the end of the year, punctuated by public meetings in the form of questions and answers.

Immediate implementation: a few moments later, some 300 supporters joined him in a municipal hall. His opponent Jean-Luc Mélenchon is preparing, the same day, to promise to “change everything” in front of more than 3,000 supporters in Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the middle of a day of social mobilization. Édouard Philippe, for his part, undertakes to multiply meetings in small format, “without intermediaries”, far from the “noise” and the “fury”.

Threatens…