Less than fifteen days after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, the presidential party La République en Marche changed its name and became “Renaissance”, a “popular party which aims to be open” to citizens and elected officials “from wherever they come” to “always make the choice of the Enlightenment against obscurantism”, indicated Thursday its general delegate Stanislas Guerini.
Created in 2016 by Emmanuel Macron, En Marche became La République en Marche after the victory of its founder in the presidential election of May 2017. As for “Renaissance”, it was the name of the majority list in the 2019 European elections. and it had not brought him luck since the list led by Nathalie Loiseau had finished second behind that of RN Jordan Bardella.
A “Together” confederation for the legislative elections
“Today we are initiating a movement to rebuild La République en Marche in order to be able to continue to broaden this political movement created by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron a little over six years ago in a political party that will carry the Renaissance name,” he said.
He was speaking at a joint press conference in Paris with Richard Ferrand, LREM president of the National Assembly, François Bayrou (MoDem) and Édouard Philippe (Horizons). The three men announced a confederation called “Together” bringing together these three parties of the presidential majority for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19.
58 nominations for relatives of Edouard Philippe
In view of the ballots of June 12 and 19, Horizons has obtained 58 candidates while the MoDem of François Bayrou will have between 101 and 110, according to sources internal to the movements. Of the 577 seats to be filled in the National Assembly, LREM should present around 400 candidates.
“There will be a few rare freezes” of constituencies, in which there will be no candidate from the presidential majority, indicated an internal source.
Since the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, the question of investitures in the legislative elections has caused much turbulence in the majority, whose various chapels compete in appetite, starting with the troops of the former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe whose relations with Emmanuel Macron are degraded. “These are the negotiations that took place in the best climate I have ever encountered”, however launched the former Prime Minister.