A simple cosmetic change or a new boost to a party that can’t set itself up? ANDParty of the President of France, Emmanuel Macronthis saturday night he formalized his new baptism as renaissance (Renaissance). The new name of the central leader’s formation was the main announcement of the national convention held this Saturday at the Louvre in Paris, where militants also voted on the new formation’s charters and leaders. With this face lift Macron wants to give new impetus to the Republic in MotionA hollow shell where there have been no internal debates over the past five years and almost all decisions have been taken from the Elysee.
Despite being re-elected as head of state in April and his party holding a relative majority in the National Assembly, the party has only one head of regional government and a handful of mayors in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. Confronted with this regional placement and lack of ideological clarity, Macron wants to continue macronism beyond his figure and control the succession processbecause he will not be able to take part in the 2017 presidential elections. The constitution does not allow a president to serve more than two terms.
MEP Séjourné at the head of the party
On April 10, election night of the first round of the presidential election, the centrist leader said to everyone, “for six years and so far, commit to working together to overcome their differences to unite in a major political movement”. But this call to build a great house of macronism received limited acceptance among his acolytes.
New Renaissance formation basically it’s a sequel and only two microgames are added to it: Conservative Heavy and Progress Regions, is led by Olivier Dussopt, a former socialist leader and current Minister of Labour. On the other hand, MODEM of centrist François Bayrou and Horizontes of former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, currently one of the most popular leaders among the French and considered Macron’s successor at the head of this central field, did not join the EU. new party. or center right.
“We need a solid, established and structured party (…). Renaissance will be that party,” said Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, after the results of the vote in which the new name was approved were announced. MEP Stéphane Séjourné was also elected general secretary of the party. Appointed in a vote where there was only one list, a mirage about macronism’s initial promise to reinvigorate politics. In France, those who hold the reins of a political organization do not correspond to leaders of the same field. In fact, Macron will only be the honorary chairman of the formation.
“Can’t define what macronism is”
Séjourné, 37, who served as a political adviser to the Elysee between 2017 and 2019, is part of Macron’s closest circle of loyalists.. With his appointment, a strong influence of the president on the succession process is guaranteed. The main goals of the new party will be to “establish the Renaissance in the region and root the Macronist ideology. And then prepare the way in which his successor will be appointed.”
One of the usual criticisms leveled at Macron is his lack of ideological coherence. “Even the president’s early circles are aware of their inability to define what macronism is,” the progressive newspaper Libération wrote in an editorial this Saturday. Its political DNA is imprinted with a battery of neoliberal reforms. (deregulation of the labor market, lowering taxes for the richest…) Approved between 2017 and 2020, but then blurred by the covid-pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
In addition to Philippe, the names of Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin also sound like possible replacements for Macron in the 2027 election. Three former leaders of Los Republicos (LR, to the PP in France concerned). All are a reflection of the right turn of a political movement supported by moderate sections of the Socialist Party in 2016.