The president cannot run for the next presidential election, as the French constitution forbids it
The Republic on the Move (LRME), the political movement founded in April 2016 by current French President Emmanuel Macron, officially changed its name yesterday. From now on it is called Renaissance (Renaissance). For example, the formation has been re-established and is already preparing for a future without him. Macron, 44, will not be able to run in the 2027 presidential election as the constitution forbids it, so a president can only serve two consecutive 5-year terms in France.
Some 2,000 people took part in the re-establishment congress of Macron’s party in Paris on Saturday. The Carrousel du Louvre, the place where the event took place, was not chosen at random. In 2017, the young president celebrated his victory at the Louvre pyramid with a spectacular staging for his speech to the tune of ‘The Ode of Joy’, the national anthem of the European Union.
To face future challenges, “we need a solid, anchored and structured party. An open, cross-border and innovative party. Renaissance will be that party. And our values will be our foundation, on which we will build and grow,” said Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne. “We will not look at whether an idea is left or right, only if it is a good idea,” said Borne, who took the view. that by changing the name of Macron’s political movement, six years after its founding, it is reaching its “maturity”.
Renaissance will be led by MEP Stéphane Séjourné, close to the current president. Séjourné, 37, replaces Stanislas Guerini, the current Minister of Transformation and Public Administration. Macron, who did not participate in the congress, will become honorary chairman of the party. Last April, Macron urged all parties of the presidential majority to create “a large political and action movement”, despite their minor ideological differences. He made this call between the two rounds of the presidential election and with his eyes on the parliamentary elections in June. His party lost an absolute majority in the National Assembly in those elections.
Renaissance is the sum of three formations: The Republic on the Move, Territories of Progress by Minister Olivier Dussopt and Agir (Act) by Minister Franck Riester. However, Macron has failed to convince Modem, François Bayrou’s moderate party and Edouard Philippe’s Horizontes, to join Rebirth so that they remain independent.
Séjourné, a ‘macronista’ who has remained in the shadows until now, will have to prepare the party for the next election nominations: the European one in 2024, the municipal one in 2026 and the presidential one in 2027. One of the major problems of La Republique En Marche , a formation made around Macron’s figure, is the lack of local anchoring. He wins the presidential election, but he usually clicks in other elections.
The congress to be held this Saturday at the Carrousel du Louvre will also mark the transformation of Macron’s political movement into a classic party. The militants pay dues and cannot join another formation – until now, according to this political movement’s website, one could join En Marche for free.
When Macron launched En Marche in April 2016, he presented it as a new political movement, “neither left nor right”, which had to overcome the old political parties. Macron, then economics minister of socialist president François Hollande, promised a different way of doing politics. It blew up the system of the old political parties by winning the elections in 2017 with a new movement founded a year earlier. The Socialist Party and the Republicans, the conservatives, have not yet recovered from their foray into the French political scene.
Séjourné will also have to prepare the delicate succession to Macron. Renaissance will present a candidate in the presidential election. Although 2027 is still a long way off, two government officials are already preparing behind the scenes to replace Macron: Bruno Le Maire, the current economy minister, and Gérald Darmanin, interior minister.
Édouard Philippe, the former Prime Minister of Macron and the current mayor of Le Havre, also appears in all the swimming pools. Despite leaving the frontline of national politics, Philippe remains a very popular leader in France and makes no secret of his presidential ambitions. The race to succeed Macron in 2027 has already begun.
Source: La Verdad
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