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En Marche!
General SecretaryRichard Ferrand
FounderEmmanuel Macron
Founded6 April 2016 (2016-04-06)
Headquarters99, rue de l'Abbé-Groult
75015 Paris
Membership (2017)262,105 claimed adherents[1]
IdeologyCentrism[2]
Liberalism[2]
Social liberalism[3][4][5]
Pro-Europeanism[6]
Political positionCenter-right
National Assembly
0 / 577
Senate
0 / 348
European Parliament
0 / 74
Departmental councils
0 / 101
Regional councils
0 / 17
Website
en-marche.fr

En Marche![a] (English: "Forward!",[7] or "On The Move"[8]), abbreviated as EM !, officially named Association pour le renouvellement de la vie politique ("Association for the Renewal of Political Life"),[9] is a social-liberal political party in France founded on 6 April 2016 by Emmanuel Macron, a former Minister of Economy and Finance, as well as a 2017 presidential candidate[10][11] and frontrunner in the first round of the 2017 French presidential election.[12]

Macron considers En Marche! to be a progressive movement, uniting both the left and the right.[13] Although he didn’t discuss the fact that the initials of the name of the party coincide with those of his name, the press covered the connection and there were related discussions in social media.[14][15]

History

En Marche! was founded on 6 April 2016 in Amiens by Emmanuel Macron.[16] It intends to run candidates in the 2017 French legislative election,[17] in order to form a majority in the National Assembly. For the candidates of the party, half will be from civil society and the other half having held previous political office.[18] The political party was registered at the address of Laurent Bigorgne, Institut Montaigne director.

Ideology

Although Macron was a member of the Socialist Party from 2006 to 2009 and an Independent from 2009 to 2016,[19][20] En Marche! seeks to transcend traditional political boundaries to be a transpartisan organisation.[16] Macron has described it as being a progressive party of both the left and the right.[21] Observers and political commentators have described the party as social-liberal or simply liberal in ideology,[2][3][4][5] as well as centrist.[4]

Academics Marta Lorimer and Susan Milner have associated En Marche! with the "Third Way", the ideological trend that previously dominated centre-left political parties in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[4][22] The party has also been compared to Spanish liberal political party Citizens, and Macron to its leader Albert Rivera.[23][24]

Election results

Presidential

President of the French Republic
Election year Candidate # of 1st round votes % of 1st round vote # of 2nd round votes % of 2nd round vote Winning party
2017 Emmanuel Macron 8,656,346 24.01% — TBD

Footnotes

  1. ^ In French, there is a space in front of the exclamation mark, which makes it "En Marche !". It is also written without the exclamation mark in both English and French media.

References

  1. ^ "La carte En Marche !". En Marche !. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Cowley, Jason (23 February 2017). "Emmanuel Macron: a populist eruption from the liberal centre". New Statesman. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b Endeweld, Marc (10 December 2016). "La démonstration de force du social-libéral Emmanuel Macron". Marianne (in French). Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d Milner, Susan (6 February 2017). "Emmanuel Macron and the building of a new liberal-centrist movement". EUROPP. London School of Economics. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  5. ^ a b Venturini, Lionel (12 January 2017). "En marche ! Un social-libéral pour piloter le projet de Macron". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  6. ^ French election: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to fight for presidency. BBC News. Published 24 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  7. ^ Callus, Andrew; Jarry, Emmanuel (16 November 2016). "Macron Launches French Presidential Bid as Polls Show Tight Race". Reuters. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
  8. ^ "France election: Far-right's Le Pen rails against globalisation". 5 February 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "France's Macron joins presidential race to 'unblock France'". BBC News.
  11. ^ "France's Macron shapes his party for 2017 election and beyond". Firstpost.
  12. ^ correspondent, Jon Henley European affairs (23 April 2017). "French election: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen into second round, official estimates show – live". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 April 2017. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  13. ^ spécial), Patrick Roger (Charente-Maritime, Vendée, envoyé (20 August 2016). "Macron précise son projet « progressiste » pour 2017" – via Le Monde.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. ^ "Emmanuel Macron : son mouvement "En marche" fait bien rire les internautes". Planet. Retrieved 24 April 2017..
  15. ^ "«En marche» : le bébé du ministre fait ses premiers pas". Libération.fr. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  16. ^ a b "Emmanuel Macron lance un " mouvement politique nouveau " baptisé " En marche ! "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 6 April 2016. ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  17. ^ "Emmanuel Macron marche sur l'eau". L'Opinion. 25 September 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  18. ^ "Législatives : Macron veut des candidats «En Marche !» sinon rien". Le Parisien. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Macron, militant PS depuis 2006, n'est plus à jour de cotisation depuis 5 ans". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  20. ^ politique, Le Scan (18 February 2015). "Emmanuel Macron n'est plus encarté au Parti socialiste". Le Figaro (in French). ISSN 0182-5852. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  21. ^ "Finalement, le parti d'Emmanuel Macron est "et de droite, et de gauche" (mais surtout progressiste) – Le Lab Europe 1" (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  22. ^ Lorimer, Marta (31 January 2017). "En Marche? Who is Emmanuel Macron and why he stands a chance to win the French presidency". EUROPP. London School of Economics. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  23. ^ magazine, Le Point, (21 December 2015). "Élections espagnoles : un Ciudadanos à la française est-il possible ?". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Macron démissionne, avec 2017 dans le viseur". Mediapart (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2016.
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