Pierre Person is no longer deputy general manager of the Republic in March. The party needs a new lease of life, he announced Monday, September 21. It is to initiate this jump that I decide today to leave my functions within the movement.
In fact, his decision had the effect of a bomb in a structure in bad shape, leading to two additional resignations the same evening – those of Sacha Houlié and Aurore Berger – during an eventful meeting of the executive office of LREM, urgently reconstituted.
In the political times that are opening up, we need collective, efficiency and commitment
, commented Stanislas Guerini, boss of En Marche, at the end of the streak. Collective, efficiency, commitment: this is precisely what is lacking in the party of the presidential majority three years after its creation and threatens its very existence today.
Electoral setbacks
After Emmanuel Macron’s victory, La République en Marche was nevertheless sitting on a pile of gold: 420,000 members claimed by the movement and the largest public funding (22 million this year). Large resources that neither Christophe Castaner, first delegate general of LREM, nor Stanislas Guerini, his successor, have managed to make fruitful. The members, gathered in a few clicks in 2017, have not turned into a sufficient number of real activists, and the party is collecting electoral setbacks.
The six partial legislative elections organized on Sunday, September 20 saw the six LREM candidates swept away. Very severely defeated in municipal, the party has nothing to expect from the senatorial elections on Sunday, September 27. In view of the state of the troops and the slack in progress, LREM will not have the capacity to present candidates in all the cantons to the departmental ones. And he will present himself to the regional in alliance with the Modem and Agir.
Already at work in the Assembly, effective during the 2019 Europeans, this strategy supposes the cancellation of LREM in favor of a presidential majority
enlarged. If Emmanuel Macron chooses to rely on her to represent himself in 2022, La République en Marche, his own movement, would be relegated to the rank of simple cash drawer. A perspective that clearly does not suit those who have resigned …
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