David Lisnard, mayor (LR) of Cannes, is not yet officially a candidate for the 2027 presidential elections. But in the columns of sunday newspaper (JDD), the elected spoke of the concept of “union of rights”, the importance of which is highlighted by some, from Éric Ciotti to Marion Maréchal.
“It is a political argument, a combination of parties. However, we must aspire to unite voters around a coherent political proposal,” he says.
Before specifying: “I defend a social project focused on freedom and individual responsibility, a right-wing vision to summarize, which opposes a left-wing vision focused on equality.” With his New Energy party, whose headquarters were recently installed in Paris, he claims to want to “crystallize the voters who come from Macronia, the Center, the Republicans, the National Rally and Reconquête.” But also “people on the left, anti-Wokist citizens and those attached to republican universalism.”
“End forty years of ‘social-statism’”
Regarding Édouard Philippe, whose name is emerging for the next presidential elections, David Lisnard indicates “exchanging with him”, knowing him “for a long time” and sharing “cultural affinities” with him. However, he highlights some differences with Matignon’s former tenant: the latter is “very well known”, comes “from high public service” and “wanted to be Emmanuel Macron’s minister”. “Basically, Édouard Philippe is more statist and centralist,” he adds.
Looking ahead to 2027, the mayor of Cannes is preparing “to conquer the principles that are the [siens]with a coherence of proposals that please or not, to put an end to forty years of ‘social-statism’ and return our country to the path of order and common sense.”
Words that could imply great interest in the next elections, but that the elected person denies. “We are not in presidential times. And anything that, perversely, highlighted a kind of individual adventure, a narcissistic story, would end badly,” he concludes.
Source: BFM TV
