Four months before the election, Emmanuel Macron's majority will kick off his campaign for the European elections.
This will be launched on March 9 in Lille "in the presence of its head of list", AFP learned this Wednesday from the presidential Renaissance party.
The head of the majority list, which should come under the banner “Need for Europe”, will therefore be revealed before this public meeting, it is specified from the same source.
While most parties have already designated their leader, with a first televised debate scheduled for March 14, several executives from Emmanuel Macron's camp have refused this role or ruled out the possibility, including former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, the former ministers Jean-Yves Le Drian, Richard Ferrand and Julien Denormandie.
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But many other names are circulating, including those of Olivier Véran, Thierry Breton, the president of the Renaissance group in the European Parliament Valérie Hayer.
Last cited, by Le Canard chainé, Renaissance MP Maud Brégeon.
Close to Édouard Philippe, MEP Gilles Boyer defended Monday in Le Figaro the candidacy of Clément Beaune, former Minister Delegate for European Affairs then Transport and member of the left wing of the majority.
“We are looking for the five-legged sheep: someone who knows Europe very well but who is also very well known and a very good debater…”, the MEP explained in our columns last week.
“The idea is to accelerate, to decide quickly enough to be able to enter the campaign,” assured the Parisian, however, a close friend of Emmanuel Macron.
Members of the government and executives of the majority will be present on March 9 at the Grand Palais in Lille.
The composition of the list whose slogan will be “Need for Europe” and which must include candidates from Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons, Radical Party, or even UDI in the event of agreement with this center-right formation, will be revealed after this meeting. public.