French President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche, changes its name to “Renaissance”, a “popular party which aims to be open” to citizens and elected officials “wherever they come from”, said Thursday its general delegate, Stanislas Guerini.
“We are initiating a movement to refound La République en Marche, in order to be able to continue to expand this political movement created by President Emmanuel Macron a little over six years ago, in a political party which will bear the name of Renaissance” , said Mr. Guerini.
Renaissance is a party intended to “be faithful to the will of the president”, who is “always to make the choice of Enlightenment against obscurantism” and “faithful to what we are doing on the European scene”, insisted Mr. Guerini .
He was speaking at a press conference in Paris attended by former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe (from the Horizons party, right), the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand (LREM), and the former minister François Bayrou (from the MoDem party, centre).
They announced a confederation called “Together” bringing together these parties of the presidential majority for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19.
Horizons has recruited 58 candidates for the legislative elections while the MoDem will have between 101 and 110, according to sources within the two movements. Of the 577 seats to be filled in the National Assembly, LREM should present around 400 candidates.
Since the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, the question of legislative nominations has caused turbulence in the majority, whose different chapels compete in appetite, starting with the troops of Édouard Philippe, whose relations with Emmanuel Macron are strained.
The president’s confidence rating has fallen by four points in one month, without the benefit of a state of grace after his re-election, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon (rebellious France, radical left) rises to second place among the favorite personalities of the French , behind Edouard Philippe, indicates an Elabe poll published on Thursday.
Emmanuel Macron was comfortably re-elected (58.55% of the vote) president in France on April 24, but his battle against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (41.45%) revealed a country largely divided.
Mr. Macron came out on top in Paris, in urban centers, as well as in the west and south-west of the country. Mrs. Le Pen was mainly supported in the South and the industrial centers of the North.