The presidential party La République en Marche changes its name and becomes “Renaissance”, a “popular party which is intended to be open” to citizens and elected “wherever they come from”, said Thursday its general delegate Stanislas Guerini. “Today we are initiating a movement to rebuild La République en Marche, in order to be able to continue to expand this political movement created by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron a little over six years ago, in a political party that will bear the name of Renaissance”, indicated Stanislas Guerini.
The name of the Macronist list at the 2019 Europeans
Renaissance, which was the name of the Macronist list in the 2019 European elections, is a party intended to “be faithful to the will of the President of the Republic” which is “always to make the choice of the Enlightenment against obscurantism” and ” faithful to what we do on the European scene”, insisted Stanislas Guerini. This party “will be intended to be open to citizens, elected officials, local elected officials wherever they come from” and “to current and future partners of the presidential majority”.
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) who announced a confederation called “Together” bringing together these three parties of the presidential majority in view of the legislative elections. In view of the polls of June 12 and 19, Horizons has obtained 58 candidates while the MoDem of François Bayrou will have between 101 and 110, AFP learned Thursday before this press conference, from sources within the two movements.
LREM presents 400 candidates
Of the 577 seats to be filled in the National Assembly, LREM should for its part present around 400 candidates, at the end of an executive office at midday. “There will be a few rare freezes” of constituencies, in which there will be no candidate from the presidential majority, said an internal source, while the first investitures were scheduled for Thursday.
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.