Renaissance (French political party)
En Marche! | |
|---|---|
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| Founder | Emmanuel Macron |
| General secretary | Richard Ferrand |
| Founded | April 6, 2016 |
| Membership (24 Feb 2017) | 200,477 claimed adherents |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Pro-Europeanism Third Way Progressivism |
| Political position | Centre[1] |
| Website | |
| en-marche.fr | |
En Marche![a] (English: Forward!,[2] or On The Move[3]), also known by its official name[4] Association pour le renouvellement de la vie politique (Association for the Renewal of Politics), is a social liberal[5] political party in France founded on 6 April 2016 by former Minister of the Economy, Industry and the Digital Economy, as well as a 2017 presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.[6][7] Macron considers En Marche! to be a progressive movement.[8] The name of the party shares Macron's initials.[9]
History
En Marche! was founded on April 6, 2016 in Amiens by Emmanuel Macron.[10] It intends to run candidates in the 2017 French legislative election.[11]
Ideology
Although Macron was a member of the Socialist Party from 2006 to 2009,[12][13] En Marche! seeks to transcend traditional political boundaries to be a transpartisan organisation.[10] Macron has described it as being a progressive organisation of both the left and the right.[14]
This political party was registered at the address of Laurent Bigorgne, Institut Montaigne director. It was launched together with Benjamin-Blaise Griveaux, Christian Dargnat, Emmanuel Miquel, Stanislas Guerini, and people working in companies such as Unibail-Rodamco, BNP Paribas, and Safran.
En Marche! has been compared to Spanish centrist political party Citizens, and Macron to its leader Albert Rivera.[15][16]
Public services
En Marche believe that public services hold a key role in French life and plan to extend opening times for public bodies to afford working people better access. Nevertheless they also plan to reduce the total number of public sector employees by 120,000 to help reduce French government spending. The general idea is to 'render public services more accountable and, at the same time, better adapted on a local level to the needs of the public'.
En Marche also plan to create an extra 10,000 supplementary police and gendarme positions, as well as up to 12,000 new teaching posts in primary and elementary schools in areas where teaching shortages are most felt.
Business
En Marche plan to reduce corporation tax to the European average of 25% from the current levels of 33%. They also plan to simplify social protection and reduce charges on medium and small businesses to help stimulate growth whilst extending unemployment assurance to those who are not yet covered by it.
Europe
The party is strongly pro-European.[17] It advocates a 'Buy European' act to restrict access to European public procurements, it also plans to reinforce European borders with an extra 5,000 border police and coastguards.
Environment
Macron himself has stated that the environment is at the heart of his "ambitious plans for investment". As part of this, En Marche plan to gradually reduce fossil fuel dependency in France and to ban processes such as fracking.
Increased investment will also be made in renewable energies with the objective being to aim to achieve 32% of French energy needs via such means.
In the sphere of agriculture, En Marche view small scale farming as good for the environment and plan to invest heavily in modernising such farming practices in environmentally friendly ways.
Footnotes
- ^ In French, there is a space in front of the exclamation mark which makes it written as "En Marche !". "En Marche" where the exclamation mark is omitted is also used by English and French media.
References
- ^ France's Macron joins presidential race to 'unblock France'. "He will run as head of the centrist En Marche movement he created in April, which now has almost 97,000 members and has received €2.7m ($2.9m; £2.3m) in donations". BBC News. Published 16 November 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ Callus, Andrew; Jarry, Emmanuel (November 16, 2016). "Macron Launches French Presidential Bid as Polls Show Tight Race". Reuters. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ^ "France election: Far-right's Le Pen rails against globalisation". 5 February 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ Quinault Maupoil, Tristan. "Le mouvement de Macron part maintenant à la chasse aux élus et aux dons". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ Marianne - La démonstration de force du social-libéral Emmanuel Macron - Samedi 10 décembre 2016
- ^ "France's Macron joins presidential race to 'unblock France'". BBC News.
- ^ "France's Macron shapes his party for 2017 election and beyond". Firstpost.
- ^ Le Monde - 20/08/2016 - Par Patrick Roger - Macron précise son projet « progressiste » pour 2017
- ^ ""En marche" : le bébé du ministre fait ses premiers pas". Libération.fr. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
- ^ a b "Emmanuel Macron lance un " mouvement politique nouveau " baptisé " En marche ! "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2016-04-06. ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
- ^ "Emmanuel Macron marche sur l'eau". L'Opinion. 2016-09-25. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
- ^ "Macron, militant PS depuis 2006, n'est plus à jour de cotisation depuis 5 ans". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-10.
- ^ politique, Le Scan (2015-02-18). "Emmanuel Macron n'est plus encarté au Parti socialiste". Le Figaro (in French). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
- ^ "Finalement, le parti d'Emmanuel Macron est "et de droite, et de gauche" (mais surtout progressiste) - Le Lab Europe 1" (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-10.
- ^ magazine, Le Point, (2015-12-21). "Élections espagnoles : un Ciudadanos à la française est-il possible ?". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-10.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Macron démissionne, avec 2017 dans le viseur". Mediapart (in French). Retrieved 2016-12-10.
- ^ Todd, Tony (2017-01-17). "Pro-EU Macron surges in French election polls". France 24. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
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