Quebec: Edouard Philippe dies on “the art of governing”

Exercise to the National Refoundation Council, launched this Thursday by Emmanuel Macron, the former Prime Minister spoke on French politics and on his own journey.

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The former Prime Minister Alain Juppé spent an entire year in Quebec. Convicted in the case of fictitious jobs of the city of Paris, in January 2004, he had found in this temporary exile material to recharge his batteries and to look, by far, the “collective depression” which he then saw France affected.

Edouard Philippe, who was walking for the first time in his life Quebec soil, does not intend to linger. In any case, not immediately. “I am still in the French political game,” he explained to the political science students of the Laval University of Quebec, ahead of whom he held a conference on Wednesday, September 7. “If, by extraordinary, in a few years I came out, I have always dreamed of being a professor abroad, I launch it like that,” he said, looking at the rectrice of the university , without seeming to believe too much about this hypothesis. While Emmanuel Macron launched this Thursday, the National Refoundation Council, in Marcoussis (Essonne), Edouard Philippe, excused because of travel, is represented by the mayor (Horizons) of Albi, Stéphanie Guiraud-Chaumeil.

After meeting for forty-eight hours, with his cap of mayor of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), his counterparts in Montreal and then of Quebec and visited the ports of these two cities located on the St. Lawrence-” Port development is an essential industrial and commercial subject, “he said-, it is as a former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron and political leader of the new Horizons party that he was invited To be expressed on “the art of governing in the time of great dizziness”.

In this faculty which has seen some of the greatest Quebec political leaders pass, including former Prime Minister Jean Lesage (1960-1966), the father of the “Quiet Revolution”, who brought Quebec In modernity, Edouard Philippe defended himself from being a “philosopher or a theorist of power”.

“I’m not sure I am an example, I was wrong,” he said right away. He readily shared some personal “dizziness”. Vertigo when he understands, in 2017, that he will be appointed Prime Minister: “I was caught in panic and lost 6 kilos in ten days, it is a vertigo that we feel in front of the Idea that we have of ourselves. Will I go for me? “

Sometimes physical vertigo, once installed in Matignon, faced with decisions to be made and their possible consequences. “During the fire of Notre-Dame Cathedral, he told the hundred students and teachers gathered, it was the president who made the decision to send the firefighters to the fire, while the ‘Building threatened to collapse, but the next day, passing in front of the Invalides court, I had a vision, that of the coffins which could have been there. I was taken of tremors. “

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