Legislative 2022: the parties of the majority launch their “Together” confederation, while La République en Marche becomes “Renaissance” – Le Monde

The president of the Horizons party, and former prime minister, Edouard Philippe; the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand; the president of the Modem, François Bayrou; and the delegate general of La République en Marche (LRM), Stanislas Guerini, during the press conference of the majority at the headquarters of LRM, in Paris, on May 5, 2022. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP This is one more act towards the legislative elections for the presidential majority. Thursday, May 5, the tenors of the parties supporting Emmanuel Macron have, in fact, launched their confederation “Together”, to present their common candidates for the legislative elections, from the headquarters of La République en Marche (LRM) in Paris. On the occasion of this rally, Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of LRM, also announced that his party was going to “refound” and change its name, becoming “Renaissance”. Richard Ferrand, President of the National Assembly, spoke first, before the leaders of the three main parties supporting Emmanuel Macron – François Bayrou, for the MoDem; former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, for Horizons; and Stanislas Guerini, for LRM -, in front of an audience where several pillars of the presidential majority appeared, wearing the different labels that make it up. Among them were several ministers and secretaries of state, including the minister for ecological transition, Babara Pompili (In common), the minister for housing, Emmanuelle Wargon (Territories of progress), or the minister in charge of relations with the Parliament, Marc Fesneau (MoDem). Read also: Legislative 2022: start of the PS national council called to decide on the agreement with LFI; the majority announces its first 187 nominations A majority “both coherent and plural” Referring to the “political and electoral agreement in the legislative elections” found between the three main parties of the majority, following final discussions held in the middle of the day , Mr. Ferrand was pleased that their union was “both coherent and plural”. “We did not wait” for the result of the second round “to tell ourselves that we should do things together”, he added, in reference, in hollow, to the difficult negotiations of the left to present a front united with the legislative ones. The “Different sensibilities honor us”, added Mr. Ferrand, joined in his remarks a few minutes later by Edouard Philippe. He too hailed a composite majority, in which, he said, “we are ‘together’ because we are not identical”, but where “those differences that are respected are obviously an asset”. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative 2022: the majority of Emmanuel Macron split between different movements before the legislative François Bayrou, for his part, welcomed the “confederal” model for which the majority opted – Emmanuel Macron had pleaded for a single party a few weeks ago, which Mr. Bayrou was opposed to. He felt that unlike the left, where “the gatherings that take place are against common sense”, the presidential majority has not “had clashes” or internal “rivalries”. In recent months, however, tensions between Mr. Philippe and LRM have continued to be raised, concerning the distribution of constituencies and nominations. While a first list of names of the candidates invested by the majority must be communicated Thursday at the end of the day, before a second on Saturday, Horizons would have obtained 58 candidates, while the Modem would obtain between 101 and 110 constituencies, leaving the remaining 400 to LRM. Asked about the financing of the campaign for the legislative elections during the press conference, François Bayrou indicated that the three majority parties, investing a single common candidacy per constituency, would share the same financing association: “We have agreed on a unique financing association. “Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative elections caught in the dizziness of the “Renaissance” political recomposition As for LRM, the presidential party has announced that it is initiating its transformation, at the same time as the President of the Republic enters his second term. Thus, the party will change its name, becoming “Renaissance”, argued the general delegate of LRM during the press conference. “Today we are initiating a movement to rebuild La République en Marche, in order to be able to continue to expand this political movement created by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron a little over six years ago, in a political party that will be called Renaissance,” said Guerini. This is the name of the macronist list brought to the 2019 European elections (the MEPs have since sat in the European Parliament within the “Renew” group). Stanislas Guerini said that this new “refounded” party would be intended to “be faithful to the will of the President of the Republic” who is “always to make the choice of Enlightenment against obscurantism” and “faithful to what we do on the European stage. A party which, too, “will be intended to be open to citizens, elected officials, local elected officials wherever they come from” and “to partners, current and future, of the presidential majority”. Read also: Legislative elections 2022: how does this ballot which follows the presidential election work? The World with AFP