Presidential: how Macron intends to organize his forces

A little over six months from the first round of the presidential election, the majority is gently agitated. While the “Campus” of La République en Marche will be held in two days, on October 2, in the presence of several ministers in Avignon, Emmanuel Macron gathered the leaders of the majority during a dinner at the Élysée on Wednesday evening, according to our colleagues from France Info. It was for the Head of State to affirm with force and clarity what he wants and, above all, what he does not want around his campaign. This is, according to a participant, the first time that the Head of State has expressed his will and his strategy so clearly.

About twenty guests were present, the generals of the entire macronist spectrum, from the right wing to the left wing, the head of the MoDem François Bayrou, the president of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand, but also the former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, who will launch his own movement on October 9. In front of an audience of strong personalities and plural ideas, Emmanuel Macron held a clear speech: no clans, no chapels.

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"Overcoming, unity, enlargement", these are even the key words of the Head of State, according to information from BFMTV. “An approach like this is not an addition of chapels, but a dynamic. The sooner the better, we must embody overcoming, ”also said the president during this dinner, according to the chain. Dinner also attended by Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance, and Barbara Pompili, Minister of Ecological Transition.

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On the other hand, the president seems to reject the idea of ​​a future "common house" mentioned in recent days by Richard Ferrand as well as François Bayrou, guest of Jean-Jacques Bourdin this Thursday morning, who affirms his intention to take part to the creation of a "great French-style democratic party" before the end of the year.

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But in the head of state's mind, the scarecrow of the Union for the Majority (UMP) of 2002 hovers. policies of the right and the center in view of the legislative elections. After the elections, the movement had become the Union for a Popular Movement, keeping its initials. Emmanuel Macron therefore claims to want the rally behind a project without the formal creation of a great movement, the future party of the majority.

Édouard Philippe, a bit "tense"?

“Me, I am not obsessed with local elected officials, what interests me are the voters”, he says, probably aimed at his ex-Prime Minister who is activating his network of mayors to create his own wave, which will take shape on October 9. A launch that Édouard Philippe would have tried to justify during this dinner by declaring that he did not want “divisions but additions”, reports BFMTV. However, the former head of government would not have appeared very serene, according to the confidences of a participant in the news channel. He was thus “a little tense, especially when the president said that chapels were not necessary”.

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It was to Richard Ferrand that Emmanuel Macron entrusted the task of building this "common house", this united gathering behind his project, with a review clause in one month.