The hesitation observed at the start of the five-year term delayed the operation, but Emmanuel Macron did not give up.
His party, La République en Marche (LREM), must rebuild itself by becoming “Renaissance” in the first half of September, following a consultation with members of the movement,
Le Figaro
learned on Monday .
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His former Elysian adviser Stéphane Séjourné, leader of the Macronist MEPs, proposed this scenario Monday evening to party officials, during the executive office at the headquarters of LREM, in Paris.
The weekend of September 10 is a deadline envisaged to record the creation of this new party.
"In this moment of rising radicalism, we need a more decentralized, more democratized party,
" said Stéphane Séjourné.
As an echo of the general delegate of LREM, Stanislas Guerini, who called on Thursday in
Le Figaro
to "
refound a presidential party, give it a broader base with our allies, root it in the territories"
, two months after announcing to the press this transformation.
Preparing for Macron's succession
Revamped government, refounded party: the relaunch of this second five-year term also goes through this, we want to believe around the head of state.
Emmanuel Macron intends to bring order to his majority.
Compelled by the Constitution to leave the Élysée in 2027, he aspires to prepare his succession and to establish in time a structure that survives him.
“The ideological dimension will be stronger
,” promises one of his relatives, aware of the shortcomings of a party accused of avoiding the debate of ideas.
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To achieve this, Emmanuel Macron wants a party.
A real.
Gone is the managerial culture movement created in 2016. Make way for bodies close to those of the Socialist Party (PS) or the Republicans (LR).
They were detailed in a draft of statutes written by the hand of Stéphane Séjourné, revealed by
Marianne
and
L'Opinion
.
At the top, a secretary general leading a college of management.
At a second level, a mini-parliament called "national office", composed of about a hundred members, as well as an "assembly of mayors".
Finally, at the local level, departmental sections.
In the ranks of LREM, a broad
“restructuring”
is announced , both in France, among French people living abroad and in overseas territories, where the presidential party suffers from its lack of presence.
Discussions all summer long
From this first diagram, discussions should make it possible to display the entire system this summer.
LREM officials have planned to organize a "managers' convention" at the end of August, before the consultation of activists in September.
The operation remains sensitive: it is a question of absorbing into a single party the socio-democrats of the Territories of Progress and the former Les Républicains d'Agir, two small allies of the presidential party.
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A discipline refused by the socio-ecologists of In common, the party founded by ex-minister Barbara Pompili.
Monday, during a meeting in political council, its leaders refused to line up behind Renaissance, according to information from
L'Opinion
confirmed in
Figaro
.
The leadership of the new party must also be decided.
The name of Stéphane Séjourné, who began to prepare the foundations, circulates insistently.
By confirming to
Le Figaro
wanting to
"pass the baton"
at the head of LREM, Stanislas Guerini praised his
"taste for organizations"
, his
"political sense"
and his
"talent"
.
A way to pave the way for his designated successor