Back on the national scene, the former Prime Minister considers it to Paris Match “You have to be as close as possible to the field” in this period when he wishes to “mobilize the French”.
Dominique de Villepin accelerates for 2027. Two years from the next presidential election, the former Prime Minister, returned to the forefront in the recent international crises (Ukraine, Middle East …), announced this Monday the creation of a political party called “Humanist France”. In confidences granted to Paris Match , The former foreign minister presents its structure as “A movement of ideas, citizens, associations”, Who will be chaired by the mayor of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise), Benoît Jimenez. “You have to be as close as possible to the field and the process must take into account the fact of mobilizing the French. Mayors are the first elected officials who constitute the heart of the battle ”he said.
His movement, Dominique de Villepin imagines him in rupture with traditional political cleavages, like what Emmanuel Macron had undertaken with En Marche (now Renaissance) in 2016, a year before his victorious campaign of 2017. “When I see figures on the right, from the left to mobilize, I think it’s a good thing”he explains, taking up, perhaps unwittingly, the spirit of the famous “at the same time” Macronian.
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In «partisan» in “Paying”“Humanist France” will be resolutely turned towards a renewal of politics “With a big P”. And this, with the aim of “move forward” With youth, in the name of which Dominique de Villepin claims to commit: “It’s their future we are talking about”he insists. With his trips across the country, he also says he is measuring a deep “worry” in society: “Many share this feeling that there is another path and that we must come back to what we are ”.
Despite the ambitions that some lend him for the 2027 election, the former secretary general of the Élysée assured that he is not committed “In a personal fight”while considering “Important to share (son) experience” In a geopolitical context that is both unstable and tense. “This is why I organize myself, I mobilize”he argues, as if to better install in the spirits the idea of a presidential candidacy. If he says he is not yet “In the time of the election” and want “Respect” the “political rhythm” of the calendar, Dominique de Villepin calls now to the “mobilisation»Faced with “Challenges that we have to take up”. “It is the fight of ideas that seems to me today relevant”, he advances.
