Agir (party)

Agir, la droite constructive action, the constructive right
Party leader	Franck Riester
vice-chairman	Fabienne Keller , Laure de La Raudière , Claude Malhuret
speaker	Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo , Olivier Becht
Treasurer	Louis Vogel
founding	November 26, 2017
Headquarters	Avenue de la Bourdonnais 72 75007 Paris
Alignment	Liberalism , pro-Europeanism
Colours)	blue
National Assembly	9/577
senate	4/348
MEPs	1/79
EP Group	RE
Website	agir-ladroiteconstructive.fr

Agir, la droite constructive (German: act - the constructive right ) is a liberal center-right party in France. It was founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Les Républicains and supports the government of President Emmanuel Macron . The chairman is Franck Riester .

history

The party was elected in November 2017 by nine MPs, including Franck Riester and Pierre-Yves Bournazel , six senators, and others. a. Fabienne Keller and Claude Malhuret , as well as the European parliamentarian Tokia Saïfi . They turned away from the conservative party Les Républicains, whose chairman Laurent Wauquiez ' pursued a sharp opposition course to the government of President Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who had been excluded from the Républicains . The ministers Gérald Darmanin and Sébastien Lecornu were also excluded from Les Républicains. In contrast to Macron's government, Wauquiez took right wing positions, which alienated moderate party members.

Already after the parliamentary elections in June 2017 , the Les Constructifs (“The Constructives”) faction had formed in the National Assembly , which, in addition to members of the middle-class UDI, also joined individual members of the Républicains who wanted to work with the Macron government. In October 2017, Claude Malhuret founded the similarly oriented group République et territoires - Les Indépendants in the Senate . In its founding document, Agir committed himself to "liberal, social, European, humanist and reformist ideas of the right and the center". It sees itself in the tradition of the UMP (predecessor party of the Républicains) under Jacques Chirac , Alain Juppé , Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Nicolas Sarkozy .

Agir initially had a collective leadership, in September 2018 Franck Riester was elected chairman. Riester has been Minister of Culture in the Philippe II cabinet since October 2018 . For the 2019 European elections , Agir ran as part of the Renaissance alliance with Macron's La République en Marche party and the Mouvement démocrate . From this list Fabienne Keller was elected to the European Parliament, where she joined the liberal group Renew Europe .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cat Contiguglia: French politicians launch new party in challenge to conservatives. In: Politico , November 26, 2017.
2. ↑ In élus Constructifs lancent "Agir, la droite constructive". In: Le Figaro , November 26, 2017.
3. ↑ Olivier Faye: Avec la nomination de Franck Riester, le parti Agir se rapproche de la majorité. In: Le Monde , October 16, 2018.
4. ↑ Strasbourg: l'eurodéputée Fabienne Keller appelle les élus locaux à rejoindre Agir. In: Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace , May 29, 2019.
5. ^ Fabienne KELLER , European Parliament.