Since his return from vacation, the Head of State has had a series of meetings and ministerial meetings… when he is not busy designing the architecture of his new party. This Wednesday, he will draw up the strategy for the coming months, with the difficult challenge of reconciling climate emergency, energy sobriety and defense of purchasing power.
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It’s a cannonball comeback for Emmanuel Macron. The Head of State is on all fronts: “He takes things in hand”, says a close friend of the president. Two days after having received the defeats of his camp in the legislative elections, the president convenes, Wednesday, August 31, the full government for a council of ministers, followed by a back-to-school seminar and the intervention of the climatologist Valérie Masson- Delmotte. The president wishes to launch a call for general mobilization around the emergencies of the moment: ecology and energy. The executive believes that the summer, between fires, historic drought and bad weather, served as an awareness.
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The head of state, who compared himself on July 14 to Vulcan, the god of fire, volcanoes and the forge, looks into the same evening on the birth of Renaissance. Without an absolute majority in the National Assembly, he is betting on a new political movement, he who nevertheless claims to have gained power outside the parties. “It’s a way of saying that you always have to be in the countryside, that’s his message”, justifies a parliamentarian. Translation: Emmanuel Macron gives himself every chance of winning in the fantasized scenario, or not, of a dissolution.
Renaissance is set to replace La République en Marche, used as a flagship during the 2017 presidential campaign but which has since never managed to find a local foothold. The new party will be led by Stéphane Séjourné, a former adviser to Emmanuel Macron, now an MEP, with a mode of operation and all the attributes of the old-fashioned party. “It’s a clean break”assumes one of the architects of the transformation, who criticizes LREM for not having known “bring enough ideas into the public debate”.
Behind this new party also hides the question of the legacy of Emmanuel Macron, while the beginnings of a war of succession are already taking shape.. “We have to get everyone to agree and bring out of this party a presidential candidate for the post-Macron period”, slices a frame. Official launch of the Renaissance party, Saturday September 17 in Paris.