The former tenant of Matignon during the second five-year term of Jacques Chirac will be awarded this Wednesday evening at the Élysée this distinction, the highest of the order of the Legion of Honor. Édouard Philippe will be present at the ceremony.
A very symbolic ceremony for Jean-Pierre Raffarin, fierce support of Emmanuel Macron. The former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac will be made this Wednesday evening Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor at the Élysée, according to information from France news confirmed by BFMTV.com.
The one who no longer has a political function had been elevated to this highest order of the Legion of Honor by a decree of July 13, 2022along with lawyer and historian Serge Klarsfeld and singer and actress Line Renaud, also co-founder of Sidaction.
Édouard Philippe on the guest list
Among the guests present, there will be “those who have counted in his political career”, confides the entourage of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, including Édouard Philippe, the boss of Horizons who maintains sometimes conflicting relations with Emmanuel Macron.
After a career marked on the right, the former tenant of Matignon who would have seen himself president of the Senate for a time before being beaten by Gérard Larcher, now devotes himself to his think tank Leaders for peace and to the Prospective and innovation, close to China.
