MEP Valérie Hayer, 37, has led the centrist Renew Europe group in the European Parliament since January. Unknown to the general public, the thirty-year-old was not Emmanuel Macron's first choice.
Former minister Olivier Dussopt could be assigned a role of “number two”, according to an internal source, while the secretary general of the presidential party, Stéphane Séjourné, became Minister of Foreign Affairs in January. “It’s a very good choice, I campaigned for it to be her,” Nathalie Loiseau, MEP (Horizons) and head of the Marchers list in 2019 said.