The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, intervenes at the end of a seminar organized on Saturday in Metz, who comes to unite the party weakened by her majority relating to the assembly.
Le Monde
La République en Marche (LRM) and two allied parties, Act and territories of progress, meet on Saturday August 27 in Metz to put on Renaissance rails, the new presidential party, which takes up the name of the political group elected in June in the National Assembly. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, from the left wing of the majority, will be expressed at the end of this “seminar of executives”.
A curious equation awaits Renaissance: for the first time since the 2008 reform, the presidential party supports a head of state who, re -elected for a second term, will not be able to represent.
Another difficulty: the party does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, even with the support of its two autonomous allies, the Modem of François Bayrou and horizons by Edouard Philippe, anxious to preserve their singularity.
LRM, who had emerged in 2016 to elect President Emmanuel Macron, never had a real territorial anchoring, and collected the reverse in local elections. LRM is “a political party which, objectively, is quite ghostly, and quite unstructured (…), a big difference with the modem and even, to a certain extent, with horizons which has still been to seek a certain number of networks of the Right “, notes Benjamin Morel, professor of public law at Paris-II Panthéon-Assas.
A party led by Stéphane stayed
The new political training will be led by Stéphane Séjénéné, who is already president of the Renaissance group in the European Parliament. “Emmanuel Macron asked me to reinvent a new party,” announced, in July, to Figaro, The former advisor of the President.
A “values” charter or table will be paid to the debate on Saturday to reaffirm the main principles of the presidential movement. Stanislas Guerini, future ex-boss of LRM and now Minister of Public Transformation and Function, hopes that Renaissance will reflect “an additional step in the overtaking” of the right-left divide, Leitmotif of Emmanuel Macron.
The left wing is represented by territories of progress, led by the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt. The anchoring on the right is embodied by Act, the party of the Minister responsible for relations with the Parliament, Franck Riester, whose unwinding project of fusion with Horizons pushed some troops to Edouard Philippe (Horizons).
But “the big question will be how to build a cohesion” with “a policy which, for reasons of balance in the assembly, tends to the right, when you have a large part of deputies from the center left”, considers Benjamin Morel.
Two ministers of the right wing, Bruno Le Maire and Gérald Darmanin, intend to invest in the party. A “collegial direction” must lead the boat to the European elections, with a view to a congress, then the presidential election of 2027. Because even without Mr. Macron, Renaissance will be intended to support a candidate.