La République en Marche

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La République en Marche!
Logo-LREM-noir.svg
Stanislas guerini AN 16475.JPG
Party leader Stanislas Guerini
Secretary General Didier Medori
Deputy Chairman Pierre person
founding April 6, 2016
Place of foundation Amiens
Headquarters 99, rue de l'Abbé-Groult
75015 Paris
Alignment Liberalism ,

Progressivism ,
pro-European politics

Colours) gold
National Assembly 2017
264/577
senate 2017
18/348
Number of members 418,188 (as of May 19, 2020)
MEPs 2019
11/79
EP Group RE
Website www.en-marche.fr

La République en Marche! [ la‿ʁe.py.blik‿ɑ̃‿ˈmaʁʃ ] ( acronym : REM , LRM or LREM , officially LaREM ; German  “The Republic in Motion!” ) is a liberal political party in France , which also under the former and partly continues name used as a short name En Marche! is known. It was founded in 2016 by Emmanuel Macron in the run-up to his successful candidacy for the French presidential elections and he describes it as a movement; its members can be members of other republican parties at the same time.

positioning

The party adopts liberal , European integrationist positions. In the program for the presidential election there are political ideas such as: B. enforcing equality between men and women in the world of work, far-reaching privatizations in the public sector, extensive tax reduction and austerity measures, the special promotion of students in socially disadvantaged areas, the liberalization of labor law and the lowering of contributions to unemployment insurance. Macron himself has repeatedly stated that he wants to overcome the division in the political landscape of France into right and left, which he regards as outdated, and describes the ideological orientation of his party as "progressivism".

It is compared to the Spanish Ciudadanos party and Macron to its party leader Albert Rivera . Other observers compared Macron with Matteo Renzi , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , Justin Trudeau or Tony Blair and his New Labor .

Surname

The party was established as a political movement under the name En Marche! founded and has the same initials as the party founder Emmanuel Macron. On May 8, 2017, it was renamed La République en marche . The name of the actual association is Association pour le renouvellement de la vie politique 'Association for the renewal of political life' .

history

Party founder Emmanuel Macron

En Marche was founded on April 6, 2016 in Macron's birthplace and hometown of Amiens in northern France. Macron himself described En Marche when it was founded as a progressive social movement that he had started in order to overcome what he believed to be “sterile divisions between the parties”.

General Secretary Richard Ferrand became the first member of the party to join

The socialist Richard Ferrand became the first MP to join the party and was appointed Secretary General in October 2016. Ferrand, as parliamentary rapporteur on government reforms, had worked closely with Macron during his time as minister of economics. In the early days, En Marche received support from other politicians, including Florent Boudié , Nicole Bricq , Christophe Castaner , Gérard Collomb , Corinne Erhel († 2017), Jean-Paul Huchon and Pascal Terrasse von der Parti socialiste (PS) , Joël Giraud and Jacques Krabal from the PRG , Renaud Dutreil from the former UMP and Jean Arthuis from the Alliance centriste .

Macron announced on November 16, 2016 its intention to run as an independent candidate for the 2017 presidential election. He was subsequently supported by other politicians, in particular François Bayrou from the Mouvement démocrate , who withdrew his own candidacy, and François de Rugy from the Parti écologiste , who had participated in the Parti Socialiste primary. Emmanuel Macron won the first ballot ahead of Marine Le Pen ; on May 7th, he was elected President in the runoff election. He then gave up the chairmanship and appointed Catherine Barbaroux as interim chairman .

For the parliamentary elections that will take place in June 2017 , the party put up its own candidates in most constituencies. An appointment committee headed by former LR member Jean-Paul Delevoye was responsible for selecting the candidates. On May 11, 2017, 428 of the candidates were presented. Slightly more than half of the candidates came from civil society without a previous political office. In addition, exactly half of all candidates were female. In the constituency of Essonne I of the former Prime Minister and member of the Socialist Party, Manuel Valls , the party decided not to run an opposing candidate. Valls had sought to run for En Marche, but this was rejected with reference to the party’s internal restriction to three terms.

In November 2017, shortly before the first party congress, 100 members left the party and justified this with criticism of Macron.

For the 2019 European elections , LREM, together with MoDem and smaller pro-European center parties, drew up the Renaissance list under the leadership of the previous European Minister Nathalie Loiseau . With 22.4 percent of the vote, the list came in second behind the right-wing populist Rassemblement National and, like them, got 23 seats. Your MEPs merged with the previous liberal ALDE group to form the Renew Europe group.

In May 2020, a number of MPs left the LREM group in the National Assembly. While a group from the more conservative wing (including Valérie Petit ) together with members of the Agir party formed the Agir ensemble ("Act together") faction , representatives of the more left and ecological direction (including Cédric Villani , Émilie Cariou ) switched to the new Ecology faction démocratie solidarité (EDS). The 2020 local elections brought a heavy defeat for LREM: only in one big city, in Le Havre , did the candidate of the presidential party prevail . In several large cities such as Lyon , Strasbourg , Bordeaux and Tours , the LREM lists for the second round of voting joined those of the conservative Républicains, but there they were subject to the candidates of the Greens and Left. Édouard Philippe , who was elected mayor of Le Havre, then resigned as prime minister.

Members

En Marche counts as members all persons who have given their personal data (date of birth, address, telephone number and email address) and who have agreed to the En Marche Charter. In contrast to other parties, it is not necessary to pay a membership fee. It is also possible to remain a member of other Republican parties at the same time. However, this was no longer possible for the MPs elected in 2017.

In January 2017 the party had around 136,000 members and collected donations of 4 million euros. In February the number rose to 185,000 members and by April 2017 there were around 230,000 members.

Election results

Presidential election

year candidate 1st ballot 2nd ballot Remarks
Votes
(absolute)		 Votes
(relative)		 Votes
(absolute)		 Votes
(relative)
2017 Emmanuel Macron 8,656,346 24.01% 20,743,128 66.10% Election winner

Parliamentary elections

year 1st ballot 2nd ballot Total seats Remarks
Votes
(absolute)		 Votes
(relative)		 Seats Votes
(absolute)		 Votes
(relative)		 Seats absolutely relative
2017 6,390,856 28.21% 2 7,826,432 43.06% 306
308/577
 53.03%

Web links

Commons : La République En Marche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  36. ↑ REM and MoDem formed an electoral alliance and did not compete against each other in the respective constituencies.