“I have never voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen. “ Florian Philippot, 33, FN number two, has said the magazine GQ . He repeats it with a form of jubilation receiving Challenges in his office at Square, the seat of the National Front in Nanterre. “In 2002, I voted blank in the second round after filing a report for Chevènement the first” , he said. This multidiplômé (HEC, ENA), came from the left, is the chief blaster Jean-Marie Le Pen. The confrontation between the two men came to a head in April. In the far-right newspaper Rivarol , the honorary president of the FN recites some provocative statements, including rehabilitating -Pétain. Florian Philippot response immediately. On Twitter first: “The political break with WPFD is now complete and final. “ And a few days later, on BFM TV: ” The real enemy is the far right National Front. “ Behind the scenes, according to The duck -enchaîné , he threatens to resign if Marine Le Pen does not exclude his father. The applicant denies.
The victory of “Philippot I st ”
Anyway, the patriarch goes away and it is he, the newcomer, the big winner of this crisis. “Never a second had as much influence” , confirms Nicolas Lebourg, historian of the extreme right and the FN. His position in the party is especially strong as, according to a survey of Odoxa, 87% of FN activists think it is time for Jean-Marie Le Pen to retire. A blow to the man who founded the National Front in 1972. A victory for this young wolf, nicknamed Philippot I st internally, that dream at Matignon.
Florian Philippot n has been constantly attacking the political legacy of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Not enough statist, not social enough. Only the withdrawal of the euro, “ visionary” , found favor in his eyes.
To shake the old extreme right, it causes. In 2012, he moved to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises to bloom the tomb of General de Gaulle. Sacrilege! It is against the man of the Evian agreements of 1962 and the decolonization of French Algeria that has been built the French extreme right. In 2014, he took a bus activists – young handpicked – pray at the tomb of the general. “ Charles de Gaulle is the absolute reference” says the man whose office is at the Square in honor of the father of the V th Republic: books, framed pictures , handwritten letters … “This is a personal choice. This does not mean the whole FN “ Frédéric -assène Boccaletti, secretary general of the Federation of the Var, where harkis and Blackfoot -still ranting against the general.
Florain Philippot, it is especially the chief engineer of the demonization of the Front. For Marine Le Pen, he is the one who, with his political expertise and knowledge of public opinion, has triggered a dynamic that could open the doors of the Elysee. The pitch of his speech? Meeting the social status anxieties of middle and lower classes by a -étatiste discourse which borrows theses Chevènement and Gaullist doxa. “In order to lend credibility to the FN, he has focused on economic and social issues. It is a federation that wants Colbertism non the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution “, Thomas Guenole analysis, political scientist and lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris.
Aggregates disgruntled
Florian Philippot is the skillful director of a scientific populism, based on detailed knowledge of public opinion. The polls, it is a family affair. His brother, Damien Philippot, working at Ifop in 2007. He completed an internship at TNS Sofres while studying at HEC. Vote against the Constitutional Treaty, worker vote, voting rurban … He built a speech to those disgruntled aggregates. “ He’s a robust intellectually. It has a very fine analysis of surveys. He could talk without notes on the vote of social underlayers of department Nord , “said one former comrade promotion Willy Brandt (2007-2009) ENA. “ He brought culture to the National Front ” recognizes a party official. Indeed, Enarque (another nickname) is the Mr. figures of the FN. It can include unawares the percentage of the fall of the euro since the summer of 2014 or the price of oil. To his critics who deride his brainy side, he replied, sure of himself: “ The line running. The FN scores have risen steadily since the 2012 presidential election. “
Upon his official arrival in the organizational chart of the party as -Director Marine Le Pen campaign in October 2011, he pounded the old line. “It abounds in rating cadres FN, refines the messages, and delivers them to the media” says Wallerand de Saint-Just, the treasurer of the FN, to explain the dependence of the party with regard Florian Philippot. Another asset: his telegenic. According Lab Europe 1, he was one of the two most invited politicians, with … Marine Le Pen, the TV and radio morning in 2014. “This is a very good debater. He is able to return the argument of his opponents against them, as a judoka “, recognizes Bertrand Dutheil de La Rochère, counselor Republic and secularism of Marine Le Pen.
FN, this media omnipresence annoys. In 2014, a Facebook page, GénérationPhilippot, is launched by its young guard. Several chiefs of the party cringe. Marine Le Pen gets worked once will not hurt, and recalls his protégé to order.
Secret Cult
This ease facing camera is far from being innate. To believe one of his comrades in the ENA -Florian Philippot was rather “a discreet and introverted” . No one felt in him the makings of a political leader. It is that man likes advance masked. At ENA, the future does pipait official word on his political ideas. And while it was left … a straw! “He did not display in public political beliefs” says a former -camarade. “It is secret and compartmentalizing his life like” , says another. When the people magazine Closer in 2014 reveals his escapade in Vienna with his little journalist friend, he sees red. “The so-called transparency akin to tyranny” , he riposte. Ditto when a conflict of interest involving his brother, pollster Ifop, is evoked. “It is not involved in my political commitment” , slice he dryly
His meteoric rise, he owes it to two men. Jean-Yves Le Gallou and Paul Marie Coûteaux. In 2009, he released 34 th of ENA. Not enough to integrate large bodies. He was appointed inspector general of administration at the Interior Ministry. He met Jean-Yves Le Gallou, former mégrétiste, one of the theoreticians of national preference. The two men got and go three times on missions on French roads. “The chief thought as he left already fricotait with Marine Le Pen, says Le Gallou. This is proof that he was discreet. Otherwise, his superior would never be with me, a former MEP FN, to team. “
Adept nicknames
Another meeting will be decisive: the one with the right sovereignist Paul-Marie Coûteaux. It is after reading one of his books that Florian Philippot makes contact with him. The two men, who both voted no in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, admire each other intellectually. In May 2009, Paul-Marie Coûteaux, then close to Marine Le Pen, is organizing a dinner in his apartment on the Left Bank to make presentations. “His first reaction was to say: ” Oh no, not a technocrat, it will be boring. “ But the current is passed between them instantly, tells Coûteaux. It was incredible. “ At the outset, Florian Philippot provides services to Marine Le Pen. This is the beginning of an almost symbiotic complicity. He soon stands out from Paul-Marie Coûteaux before pushing him towards the exit.
In addition, he invents a nickname and participates in the blog The real debate hosted by Marianne.fr. From 2010 he exposes his vision of the FN, far from the official program. For him, the anti-state and antifonctionnaires inherited Poujadism speech is nonsense. As retirement at age 65, he wants to bring back 60 years. All is said. “The problem is that it did so under a false identity by posing as a senior officer left in the dark while he was already working for Navy” , advanced Jean Robin, journalist and essayist near the sovereigntist movement.
pseudonyms, it is almost a -Second nature to Florian Philippot. In 2011, it was the excitement at the Ministry of Economy. It is rumored that a senior finance officials working for Marine Le Pen. His name? Adrien. Actually, Florian Philippot. It even has the nerve to hold a press conference in April 2011, where it is as a Bercy official and exposes the economic program of the National Front. Since then, he admits not without humor he has “ stopped doing press conferences in burqas.”
provocations Amateur
Born out seraglio, this teacher’s son has always had a taste for provocation against the establishment . In 2002, a student at the prestigious HEC business school, he created a club, HEC with Che, to support the former Interior Minister Lionel Jospin. A few months later, he even braved the official association HEC Debates by developing a competing structure. “He called Chevènement in 2003 and Thierry Meyssan [conspiracy, author of a book questioning 11 September 2001]” , remembers a school student for whom it was clearly an act “anti-system” .
Florian Philippot hustles all codes. Thus, during protests against marriage for all, it induces Marine Le Pen not -défiler. To the chagrin of his niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, which itself takes the head of the procession.
The latter, just 25, is his best enemy within the party. Everything opposes them, whether in the economic sphere – it is statist claims and left, she said -libérale and right – or societal issues. In this war in his sleeve, it has a head start. She was elected MP of Vaucluse in 2012. He failed twice in Forbach: in June 2012 in the March 2014 legislative and municipal. And at the last congress of the FN, last year, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen has been acclaimed by the central committee, arriving at the first place. -Florian Philippot finished fourth, far behind. “Wear the name Le Pen, it gives a boost” , will it advance.
He may have his revenge in regional elections next December. It should appear in Alsace Champagne – Ardenne Lorraine. Following the ouster of Jean-Marie Le Pen, is that Marion was named top of the list in Paca. Far from harming Marine Le Pen, this confrontation allows him to cast a wide net, with a popular and statist FN in the north, and FN-handed, bourgeois and conservative in the South.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HIM
Bertrand de La Rochère Dutheuil Councillor Republic Marine Le Pen of secularism, former chief of staff Jean-Pierre Chevènement. “He came alone to the National Front without troupe His success and his rise within the party, it must at the its work force. As for the jealousy that can inspire, it is unfortunately inherent in every human structure. ”
Philippe Murer, Marine Le Pen economic adviser, former economist close to the “ démondialisateur” Jacques Sapir: “It is one of the great architects of the evolution of the thinking of the National Front. The Front’s great strength is standing over the issue of the nation and not to confine itself to the theme of immigration. Thus, the FN key new audiences, civil servants, teachers, committed to safeguarding the public service “.
Thomas Guenole, political scientist, lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris: “The FN is a hereditary absolute monarchy in this court if the Queen decided her disgrace, overnight, Philippot is nothing. Conversely, if Florian Philippot hand, slamming the door, Marine Le Pen is unfit to steer the party’s political strategy. “
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