fera connaître d'ici jeudi à midi ses 577 candidats", "Macron précise son projet " progressiste " pour 2017", https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_République_En_Marche!&oldid=7123139, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. After the first round of voting, Macron’s movement now has a huge majority in the French Parliament which could see it with as many as 430 seats in a 577-seat Parliament. He has been lucky that the opposition has struggled to organise, with left-wing Jean-Luc Mélenchon unable to unite the social movement against labour reforms, while on the far right Marine Le Pen is panicking as her party sinks. They lied. La République En Marche won 350 seats in the mid-June election, a decisive majority of the 577-member National Assembly. On the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon did what he does best, which is shout loudly. ", "Onward! to be a progressive movement, uniting both the left and the right. In an interview with Le Monde, Person said the party is stuck with its “2017 logic, which was to carry out the presidential project. Only four seats were claimed in the first round. It’s not just a party – it’s “Macron’s party”, a unique political creature whose only public face and leading figure is the president. More than half of its candidates are ordinary members of the public and haven’t held political office before - including one woman who is a former bullfighter. He used to work as a civil servant before becoming an investment banker and served President Francois Hollande as a senior adviser in 2012. Thus, in most cases, it will be difficult for the Front national to overcome the ‘front républicain’. Latest news, analysis and comment on migration in Europe and beyond. Pierre Person, deputy secretary-general of Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche, is stepping down because of disagreements over the direction of the party, he said Monday. En Marche was set up in April 2016 by France’s former economy minister Emmanuel Macron, 39.The party has been described as centrist, with left-wing social policies and economically liberal ", "Emmanuel Macron a Berlin pour se donner une stature européenne", "Les Inrocks - Législatives : "Le parti d'Emmanuel Macron a un caractère attrape-tout, "Macron Launches French Presidential Bid as Polls Show Tight Race", "Emmanuel Macron: the French outsider who would be president", "Macron, Well Ahead of Le Pen, Is Poised to Be President of France", "French election: What next for Macron after win? Fully-integrated software to help you reach the right people and get out the vote. mlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">. The piece also denounces the new party statutes, a series of rules setting the way the party is governed. The party put forward its candidates for this year’s French Parliamentary running under the name La République en Marche. In a single month, President Emmanuel Macron empowered hundreds of candidates to build a party from the ground up, win 350 seats in Parliament, and shift the dynamics of French politics. [LREM] had huge goals, and they did everything they could to reach them. This page was last changed on 25 September 2020, at 20:29. Although he has said he would resign as spokesperson, he is planning on remaining the official link between the government and parliament, despite the fact 70 per cent of the French public think that if he wins, he should leave all his government positions. Pierre Person, deputy secretary-general of Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche, is stepping down because of disagreements over the direction of the party, he said Monday. En Marche! “La République en Marche is everything but friendly and benevolent, even if it has successfully turned these emotional tendencies into marketing concepts to sell the En Marche product.”. En Marche was set up in April 2016 by France’s former economy minister Emmanuel Macron, 39. Pierre Person, deputy secretary-general of Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche, is stepping down because of disagreements over the direction of the party, he said Monday. October 27 — Corporate responsibility for supply chains: which framework for the EU? La République en Marche - from nowhere to 'premier parti de France' June 12, 2017 by Paul Smith In France, national elections are a marathon, not a sprint, and on Sunday 11 June, French voters went to the polls again, to vote in the first round of the general election to elect a … He was one of Macron’s political advisers during the presidential campaign and was elected as a member of parliament in 2017. On May 8 – the day after Macron was elected President – the party’s General Secretary announced the party’s new name would be La République en Marche and transformed into a formal political party. In fact the turnout is about the same as the regionals in 2015, when the FN did very well. “The work in this area is insufficient. If the party really is looking at 450 seats, then it’s difficult to know where they will hold group meetings. A huge number of REM politicians in the French parliament will make it easier for the new president to get his policies through. If the sweep holds as expected in next Sunday's final round, lawmakers for Macron's party, many of them new to politics, could take more than 400 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, the lower house - unprecedented in the Fifth Republic. ",[6][7] "Onward! Six months into his term, the luck of France’s young, shiny new president is fading. October 28 — Health care systems post-COVID 19: Pressing Reset? And finally, 43% of the candidates in the lead after the first round are women. There are two rounds in the election. Pauline Bock is a New Statesman contributing writer based in Brussels. It was critical for them to excel at promoting this infrastructure, especially because there were so many candidates and not everyone had a huge staff that would be able to handle everything internally. Yet Macron remains the party's true ruler. Charged with galvanising the troops and pursuing the latter strategy, François Baroin did little more than look handsome but harassed. The retreat of the FN, the party Le Pen branded as ‘le premier parti de France’ after the 2015 regional elections, has been a real surprise. He will also be pleased to have put clear red water between himself and the Communist Party. “I have come up against an organization that is too inward-looking and does not take enough account of its [members], its local elected officials or its members of parliament,” he added. In a single month, President Emmanuel Macron empowered hundreds of candidates to build a party from the ground up, win 350 seats in Parliament, and shift the dynamics of French politics. There was a record number of voters abstaining in the first round of the parliamentary elections at the weekend. Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers on the continent. (French: [ɑ̃ maʁʃ]; English translation: "Forward! Nevertheless, in the polls the “control freak” president continues to fall. That isn’t without its problems, but it’s a good problem to have, if you’re Emmanuel Macron. So, they put together a team of people who could support the installation process across their many nations, and because they had this team, they could quickly communicate with us when they noticed anything we could change or help them with. The first and most obvious point to make is the success of LRM in pushing on from Macron’s 24% to 32%, marginally better than the last opinion polls before voting. Person said he will remain an LREM member. By the time that goal date arrived, 378 nations were up, running, and working toward victory. A blow for his party is a blow for Macron; if the group is deemed undemocratic, it adds to his – widely spread – image as a “control freak”. But some projections have the ‘gauche radicale’ with as few as 10 seats, not enough to form its own group in the Assembly. here. How does the UK’s second wave of Covid-19 compare to those in Europe? In the third place, the opposition parties all fought very poor campaigns . In comparison, in 2012, François Hollande took 28.6% of the vote in the first round in 2012, but the broad pro-Hollande alliance (Socialists, other left, Greens) took 39% of the vote in the first round of the general election. For their part, what remains of the PS is, as one commentator put it, ‘a field of ruins’. How La République En Marche reached a parliamentary majority. The turnout for the presidential election was already lower than ever before, so the trend was already there, though the acceleration is a cause for concern. Members had already complained in July that the very strict new statutes could would translate into a vertical model of ruling, again contrary to Macron’s promises. Prior to this the newcomer had never held political office. In France, national elections are a marathon, not a sprint, and on Sunday 11 June, French voters went to the polls again, to vote in the first round of the general election to elect a new National Assembly. Macron is now France’s youngest ever president after being voted into power in May 2017 - just over a year after launching En Marche. [12], Last edited on 25 September 2020, at 20:29, Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs, "Third-way à la française: What do Macron's reforms involve and how likely are they to succeed? In those terms, Macron’s progress is actually quite modest, but only 19 of the presidential party’s 525 candidates did not make it through to the second round. We must finally have political debates in this party,” he added. Macron's own actions have also taken their toll on the movement's image. They were really well-organized, and their team structure was a part of what led them to success. “The coming coronation of Christophe Castaner, elected leader of the party before his time, for lack of adversaries, leaves to the members little hope for democracy,” reads the article announcing the decision by the 100 marcheurs (from “En Marche”) to walk away. Leader: French president Emmanuel Macron. A large REM majority would also mark a new era in French politics after the traditional opposing left and right parties which were nowhere to be seen in the French presidential election run-off. Prague's Pirate Party mayor on his war with illiberal politics, The pandemic era: why Covid-19's upheaval is here to stay. Meanwhile, the media will focus on the contest away down south between the outgoing FN deputy Gilbert Collard and the LRM poster-girl and ex torera Marie Sara, a contest which is locked on 32% each. But by being so ambitious, they managed to actually get something very big done. Even Le Pen’s right-hand man, Florian Philippot, who took nearly 24% of the vote in Moselle, will have his work cut out to get elected against LRM’s Christophe Arend (22%). By logging in, you confirm acceptance of our POLITICO Privacy Policy. The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates, Register with your social account or click here to log in. La République en Marche – often shortened to REM – have allied themselves with the Mouvement Democrate (MoDem) party to put forward candidates. ", "Working! You can find our Community Guidelines in full Instead of saying, “we’re going to provide all that the candidates need and talk to them one by one,” they distributed everything and thought in terms of hundreds instead of dozens. Campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the U.K. Latest news, analysis and comment from POLITICO’s editors and guest writers in Europe. Mobilising opposition is, evidently, very difficult and the parties this time have proved to be unequal to the task. A party leader, unanimously elected by secret ballot, remaining a member of government: not exactly the “democratic revolution” Macron promised last year when he was running for office. An IPSOS poll for French daily Le Monde published on April 6 has shown a change in France’s perception of the ideological position of Macron’s La République En Marche … En Marche! Are you sure you want to submit this vote? They conclude: “The 100 citizens that we are, independent, free, human rights activists, partisans of democracy, cannot continue within a movement or party without common policy, that did not manage to base itself on the pillars of democracy and that has denied with arrogance and contempt the intelligence of the people.”.