LREM joins Avignon, the kickoff of Emmanuel Macron’s campaign?
La République en Marche is organizing a campus in Avignon this weekend. Can we talk about the kickoff of Emmanuel Macron’s next campaign? Barely disguised, yes. It will first be a show of force. More than 4000 people are expected, which has become rare for a political party, and which is unprecedented for LREM.
Emmanuel Macron: No one doubts his desire to return to the Élysée
Stanislas Guerini, the general delegate of the Macronist party will strongly call for a new mandate of Emmanuel Macron even if, obviously it is not now that the head of state will officially declare himself a candidate. But the idea is to install the evidence of this candidacy as early as possible, to the point of trivializing it. No one doubts Macron’s desire to return to the Elysee Palace. So rather than maintaining a false suspense, the strategy is rather to install in the opinion the idea of a continuum between the two mandates. With for example reforms which will be announced and even drafted before the presidential election, but voted after; the typical example being that of pensions.
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Will this gathering also be the occasion to launch this famous ” commune house “ which macronists work on? The time for the transformation of La République en Marche into a large party or into a better organized confederation with the Modem and others not yet of the majority has not yet come. Many people work there, including François Bayrou and Richard Ferrand the President of the National Assembly. But the friends of the Head of State are well aware that these shop stories do not really interest, and not even at all the French.
So this is not what will be put forward but the image of unity.
Edouard Philippe participated in a dinner of the heads of the majority at the Elysee Palace around Emmanuel Macron
All parties, all currents of the majority will be present in Avignon. Here again, the idea is very simple, it is to oppose the unity of the whole majority family around its undisputed leader while everywhere else the political landscape is fragmented and fragmented. On the left, the Jadot-Rousseau match is decided but a new competition settles between the candidate of the Greens and Anne Hidalgo. On the far left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon faces competition from the Communist Fabien Roussel. The right has chosen to offer themselves a battle of two more months to decide between Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier. And then, and this is not the least of the matches, the breakthrough of Eric Zemmour makes Marine Le Pen falter. The division with all the others the unity with us only. The message is simple but effective.
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Doesn’t the return of Edouard Philippe pose a problem within the majority? It is true that when we are talking about a common house, the mayor of Havre is going to build his own shop. And at the same time we can clearly see that François Bayrou does not want him in this common house. Yesterday, the Express reveals to us, Philippe participated, for the first time in a long time, in a dinner of the chiefs of the majority, at the Elysée around Emmanuel Macron. Proof that the Head of State does not want to target his former head of government who has made it clear that he will support him in 2022 but who is already writing his own score for 2027.
Guillaume Tabard