the presidential majority announces the creation of the Ensemble confederation, with in particular LREM, the MoDem and Horizons

The presidential majority details the outlines of its strategy for the legislative elections. On this occasion, a confederation, composed in particular of LREM, MoDem, Horizons and Territories of Progress, is created and named Together. “‘Together’ is the desire to be united, side by side, to carry the ideas of Emmanuel Macron (…). It is the presidential majority, Together, which has made it possible to achieve a political agreement to invest the candidates for the legislative elections”said Richard Ferrand, Thursday, May 5.

A list of 200 to 250 investitures validated by Emmanuel Macron will be unveiled at the end of the day, according to information from franceinfo. A second salvo will arrive in the following days. “We did not wait for the legislative elections to do things together: there is consistency”, said Richard Ferrand, tackling without naming the New Left-wing Ecological and Social People’s Union, which is rising after the second round of the presidential election.

Around the President of the National Assembly, François Bayrou (MoDem) and Édouard Philippe (Horizons) boasted “a very important moment”. 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.