“I decided to create a movement of ideas, of citizens, through the creation of a political party,” he said in an interview with the Parisian, adding that it was a “movement open to all” already having “several dozen local locations”.
“We need to bring together all French people to defend social justice and republican order,” he added.
Denouncing a “logic of permanent overbidding” on the part of politicians, Dominique de Villepin, 71, claimed to return to the front of the stage so that the French are not “prisoners of a cleavage between the radicality of LFI and that of the RN”.
“I am not for the escalation, neither security nor budgetary, but for a policy of balance and measure,” he insisted.
He who was also Minister of the Interior (2004-2005), in passing the current occupant of the post, also expected as a serious candidate in 2027.
“Take the crisis with Algeria: Bruno Retailleau should tackle the responsibility of his, which is the security of the French and to return the OQTF who present a danger,” he tackled. “For this, we need more professionalism and less overbidding on TV sets.”
Ensuring that obtaining the 500 signatures necessary to be candidate for the presidential election “will not (IT) be an obstacle” in view of “all support and encouragement” already received, he assured that he was “to restore the presidential function, for a head of arbitrator, guarantor of institutions and inspirer of the nation”.
“Since my departure from Matignon in 2007, I got 18 years old to think, learn from lessons, forget any pride and personal ambition,” he added.
The new party, to which to join will be free, will be led by the mayor UDI of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise), Benoît Jimenez, said Villepin. “We are going to take advantage of summer to structure ourselves,” he added.
© Agence France-Presse
