It is never easy to start a new political party.
It is always uncomfortable to be the ruling party.
The combination of the two difficulties explains the unenviable situation in which La République en Marche finds itself, five years after its creation.
François Mitterrand had overhauled the PS, which existed before him, before entering the Élysée ten years later.
Jacques Chirac had created the RPR, revitalizing the old Gaullist party, before winning in turn.
Nicolas Sarkozy had rebuilt the UMP.
François Hollande had led the PS for ten years before being a presidential candidate.
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- which later became La République en Marche - had no existence of its own before or outside Emmanuel Macron;
its very initials attest to this.
It was not even a tool of conquest, the victory of the former Minister of the Economy owing more to his personal charisma than to the organization of his troops.
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