The presidential party La République en Marche (LREM) is changing its name to “Renaissance”, its general delegate Stanislas Guerini announced on Thursday.
Renaissance, which was the name of the Macronist list in the 2019 European elections, is a party intended to “be faithful to the will of the President of the Republic” which is “always to make the choice of the Enlightenment against obscurantism” and ” faithful to what we are doing on the European scene”, indicated Mr. Guerini.
He was speaking at a joint press conference in Paris with Richard Ferrand, LREM president of the National Assembly, François Bayrou (MoDem) and Edouard Philippe (Horizons) who announced a confederation called “Together” bringing together these three parties of the presidential majority in view of the legislative elections.
Ambitions
In view of the polls of June 12 and 19, Horizons has obtained 58 candidates while the MoDem of François Bayrou will have between 101 and 110, AFP learned Thursday before this press conference, from sources within the two movements. .
“There will be a few rare freezes” of constituencies, in which there will be no candidate from the presidential majority, said an internal source, while the first investitures were scheduled for Thursday.
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 Edouard Philippe whose relations with Emmanuel Macron are degraded.