
His return to the French political landscape is refined. Less than two years from the presidential election, former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced, Monday, June 23, the creation of his own party, called humanist France, of which he will be the honorary president.
“I decided to create a movement of ideas, of citizens, through the creation of a political party”he said in an interview with Parisianstating that it was a “Movement open to all” having already “Several dozen local locations”.
“We need to bring together all French people to defend social justice and republican order”he adds. Denouncing a “Permanent escalation logic” On the part of politicians, Dominique de Villepin, 71, claims to come back 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”.
“Restore the presidential function”
“I am not for overbidding, no security or budgetary, but for a policy of balance and measure”he insists.
He who was also Minister of the Interior (2004-2005), scratched in passing the current occupant of the post, Bruno Retailleau, also expected as a serious candidate in 2027. “Take the crisis with Algeria: Bruno Retailleau should tackle his responsibility, which is the security of the French and to return the OQTFs which present a danger”he tackles. “For this, we need more professionalism and less overbidding on TV sets”he adds.
Ensuring that obtaining the 500 signatures necessary to be a presidential candidate “Will not be[it] not an obstacle “ in view of “All support and encouragement” already received, he claims to be “To restore the presidential function, for an arbitrator head of state, guarantor of institutions and inspirer of the nation”.
“Since my departure from Matignon in 2007, I was eighteen to think, learn from lessons, forget any pride and personal ambition”he adds.
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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. “We will take advantage of summer to structure ourselves”specifies M. de Villepin.