After leaving Les Républicains, the mayor of Toulon (Var) is getting closer to LREM. This Monday, Hubert Falco officially supported Emmanuel Macron, eight months before the presidential election, explaining that “France needs to have a man of courage at its head”.
“I am making the personal choice to support Emmanuel Macron because he does what he says and because France needs to have a man of courage, realism and action at its head”, whose results “have no precedent or equivalent,” pleaded the mayor of Toulon and president of the Toulon-Provence-Mediterranean metropolis in a press release.
“Who could have done better than him?” “
And yet “nothing will have been spared”, estimated Hubert Falco: “Yellow vests, pensions, demonstrations on the climate, urban violence, health crisis”. “Faced with these crises, who could have done better than him? No one, and that no one can dispute ”.
Hubert Falco was part of the forty or so mayors of the moderate right and of the center gathered this Sunday in Fontainebleau (south-east of Paris) around the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in order to “weigh” more politically as the presidential election approaches. from 2022.
With this support displayed for the President of the Republic, the mayor of Toulon however goes further than his neighbor mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, also out of bounds with the Republicans, who explained this Sunday that these mayors “did not hear not be a springboard for any candidate whatsoever with us ”.