Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche (LREM), officially changed its name this Thursday, May 5. It will henceforth be called “Renaissance”. In view of the legislative elections, the various parties of the majority are also grouped together in a confederation called “Together”, with Horizons, the party of Édouard Philippe, and the Modem of François Bayrou.
It will be called “Renaissance”. Stanislas Guérini, until now general delegate of LREM, speaks at a press conference about a new ” popular party which is intended to be open », to citizens and elected officials « wherever they come from “, for ” always make the choice of Enlightenment against obscurantism “.
Renaissance was the name of the Macronist list for the 2019 Europeans. It will now be the name of Emmanuel Macron’s training, ” faithful to the will of the President of the Republic », « faithful to what we do on the European stage “, in the words of Mr. Guerini.
Today we are initiating a movement to rebuild La République en Marche so that we can 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.
In the legislative elections, the majority also gathers in a confederation called “Together”. Horizons, the party of Edouard Philippe, has obtained 58 candidates, while the MoDem of François Bayrou will have between 101 and 110, according to AFP. Renaissance will present approximately 400 candidates.
MM. Philippe and Bayrou found themselves “together” to announce the news, alongside Mr. Guérini and Richard Ferrand, loyal among the faithful of Mr. Macron, from the Socialist Party and currently President of the National Assembly. A majority gathered for June 12 and 19.
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Note, on the sidelines of this distribution of roles, that the new presidential majority retains the possibility of not presenting a candidate at all in some constituencies, still according to AFP. “ There will be a few rare freezes “, explains an internal source to the press agency.
The outgoing majority therefore now intends to revolve around three groups, united under the same banner in most of the 577 constituencies. He stays ” some adjustments to achieve and it’s going slowly in finalizing slates for nominations, according to one stakeholder.
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With agencies