Renaissance MPs voted electronically on Saturday 13 July to elect their group president. A vote without suspense since Gabriel Attal was the only candidate. The Prime Minister was largely elected with almost 93% of the votes cast. But the battle of the leaders for the succession of Emmanuel Macron is only just beginning in the presidential camp.
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It is an election in a chair for Gabriel Attal, who will therefore occupy as soon asEmmanuel Macron will have accepted his resignation, probably at the beginning of next week, from the strategic post of president of the Renaissance group in the Assembly.
It is a control tower that was coveted by other tenors, Elisabeth Borne, but also – and above all – Gerald Darmaninwho did not file his candidacy, but made it known that he would have to be reckoned with by sending a message to the group’s deputies the day before the vote in which he stated that the election of Gabriel Attal does not resolve “ neither the political line nor the functioning of the party ” A party which he might now want to lead.
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Attal versus Darmanin, it will be one of the duels for the leadership of the Macronist family and the succession of Emmanuel Macron. A battle of men, but also of political orientation. When Gabriel Attal, from the Socialist Party, could seek alliances on the left. Gérald Darmanin, originally a Sarkozyst, wants to govern with the right.
Emmanuel Macron tried to bring his ministers back into line on Friday during a meeting at the Élysée Palace by calling them “ to ensure unity “But his authority is challenged by a dissolution which has fractured his camp.
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