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Overview
- On Monday, June 29, government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon publicly announced her support for Édouard Philippe and said she will attend his Paris meeting on July 5 while keeping her ministerial post and party membership.
- In the days that followed, other Renaissance figures including minister Mathieu Lefèvre and deputy Éric Woerth declared they back Philippe, creating a visible flow of centrist support away from Gabriel Attal.
- Those who endorsed Philippe insist they will take no operational campaign roles, a stance that organizers and Matignon say keeps them within rules set by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu but raises tensions over government neutrality.
- Philippe has framed a possible formal «process» to settle the centre’s single candidate between October and February, and his camp says recent ralliements strengthen his position against Attal ahead of the July 5 Adidas Arena meeting.
- Polling continues to show the Rassemblement National well ahead nationally while Philippe leads Attal inside the centrist lane, which is fueling urgency for consolidation to avoid a potential RN–LFI second round.