Together for the Republic Ensemble pour la République | |
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| Leader | Gabriel Attal (RE) |
| Secretary-General | Stanislas Guerini (RE) |
| Vice Presidents | |
| Founded | 2019; 6 years ago (2019) (as Renaissance) 29 November 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-29) (as Ensemble Citoyens) |
| Political position | Centre tocentre-right |
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| Senate | 46 / 348 |
| National Assembly | 159 / 577 |
| European Parliament | 13 / 79 |
| Website | |
| ensemble-2024 | |
Ensemble (lit. 'Together', stylised inall caps), known in full asEnsemble pour la République (Together for the Republic), is aliberal political coalition in France created byEmmanuel Macron.[1][2] Formed in November 2021 asEnsemble Citoyens,[3] it makes up thepresidential majority and includesRenaissance (RE, formerly known as En Marche and La République En Marche!),Democratic Movement (MoDem),Horizons,En commun, and the Progressive Federation. The coalition included the partiesAgir andTerritories of Progress (TDP) until they were merged into the rebranded Renaissance. Ensemble has mainly been described as beingcentrist[4][5][6][7] and sometimes ascentre-right[8][9][10] on the political spectrum.
After the2022 French legislative election, the coalition won a plurality of seats but lost its majority in the National Assembly.[11] In2024, they were reduced further into third place in terms of votes but second in seats.[12]
On 17 December 2017, at the congress of theDemocratic Movement (MoDem),Christophe Castaner said he supported an "enlarged list" for the European elections based on their alliance,[13] and on 26 September 2018, the movement officially announced the opening of applications for prospective candidates from civil society,[14] receiving 2,673 in total,[15] winnowed by an investiture committee chaired byJean-Marc Borello.[16] Former Élysée advisorStéphane Séjourné was designated campaign director on 29 October, tasked with creating a list alongsideAgir,[17] and seeking a lead candidate with a "green profile".[18] For the MoDem, Bayrou selected Régis Lefebvre to serve as deputy campaign director.[19]
In March 2019,Les Échos reported that the choice of lead candidate was to be made internally between either health ministerAgnès Buzyn or European affairs ministerNathalie Loiseau.[20] Loiseau officially announced she would seek the nomination for lead candidate following her debate withMarine Le Pen on the set ofL'Émission politique on 14 March,[21] whileLes Échos andLe Parisien later reported that Buzyn withdrew her name from consideration.[22] Loiseau was officially designated as lead candidate on 26 March as the list of the first 30 candidates was unveiled.[23]Alain Juppé was the subject of early speculation regarding his potential candidacy to lead the list,[24] though confirmed on 19 March 2018 that he would not stand,[25] and his appointment to theConstitutional Council precluded his participation in the campaign, but he indicated he would have supportedMacron's list.[26]
LaREM was expected to sign a cooperation agreement with theALDE group for the2019 European Parliament election.[27] However, owing to theGilets Jaunes protests and the rise of national populism within France, Macron opted to run a campaign focusing more on electing representatives of his party to theEuropean Parliament, than campaigning forALDE. Macron styled his campaign as "Renaissance", calling for a renaissance across Europe.[28] The electoral slate which comprised Macron'sLaREM, MoDem and other parties was subsequently named theRenaissance List.
On 15 February,Challenges revealed that EELV MEPPascal Durand would be on the list in an electable position and Séjourné in the top 25 places.[29] The centre-right party Agir proposed several candidates for the list, including two in electable position: Nicolas Barnier (the son of Michel Barnier and a parliamentary assistant), as well asFabienne Keller,Gilles Boyer,Élisabeth Morin-Chartier, and Xavier Fournier.[30] In an interview published inChallenges on 6 February,Radical Movement co-presidentLaurent Hénart indicated that the movement would likely vote to join a common list,[31] sparking dissent among some ex-PRG members including co-presidentSylvia Pinel, who announced her departure from the party to resurrect the PRG on two days later.[32] The candidates it proposed included outgoing MEPDominique Riquet, Olga Johnson, and Mélanie Fortier.[33] One outgoing MEP,Jean Arthuis, announced that he would not seek to run again in 2019,[34] and Agir MEPTokia Saïfi also retired,[35] as did the party's other MEP Élisabeth Morin-Chartier after learning she would not be in electable position on the list.[36] Foreign nationals were also on the list, including former Italian undersecretary for European affairsSandro Gozi.[37] After declining to run as a lead candidate, Canfin ultimately appeared in second on the list.[38]
La République En Marche considered alliances with similar European political parties includingCitizens in Spain and theDemocratic Party in Italy, as well as parties outside of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade was delegated with the task of forming contacts with potential European partners.[39] On 9 September 2018,Guy Verhofstadt, leader of theALDE group, claimed that La République En Marche would ally with ALDE, which Castaner denied.[40] Reports in October indicated Macron and Dutch prime ministerMark Rutte reached an agreement in principle for an alliance, though Anglade emphasized that ALDE parties would merely serve as the foundation, with EPP parties on the right such asCivic Platform in Poland andNew Democracy in Greece as well as PES parties on the left including the Democratic Party in Italy and theSocial Democratic Party of Austria in consideration. The party considered recruiting MEPs to form a group after the election.[41] Following the airing of a report on France 2 on 11 March about ALDE's financial backing fromMonsanto, manufacturer ofglyphosate, the party announced that it would not join the ALDE,[42] leading the latter to announce it would no longer accept corporate donations.[43] Verhofstadt later announced on 2 May that the ALDE group would be dissolved after the elections to ally and create a new group.[44] Following the election, theALDE parliamentary group reformed intoRenew Europe, incorporating Macron's Renaissance.
François Bayrou, the leader of theDemocratic Movement (MoDem) has previously proposed the formation of a coalition that would includecentrist andcentre-right parties. In November 2021,president of the National Assembly,Richard Ferrand, accepted his proposal and together they had formed Ensemble Citoyens for the upcoming2022 legislative elections. Besides the Democratic Movement andRenaissance,Agir was also its founding member.[45][46][47] In the following month, they were joined by theRadical Party,Horizons,Territories of Progress, andEn Commun.[48][49]
From its foundation in November, the coalition has been headed by Ferrand as its leader, Bayrou andÉdouard Philippe as vice-presidents, andStanislas Guerini as secretary-general.[50][51]Jean Castex has also affiliated himself with the coalition.[52] Philippe suspended its participation in the coalition on 14 January 2022, although, four days later he had announced that his party was reinstated into the coalition.[53][54] In April, LREM announced that it would change its party name to "Renaissance", and a month later, the name of the coalition was shortened to just Ensemble.[55][56] The Progressive Federation joined the coalition in May 2022.[57]
Just prior2024 legislative elections,Union of Democrats and Independents also joined the coalition.
The coalition aimed to bring the presidential majority ofEmmanuel Macron together in order to present its joint candidates for the2022 French legislative election.[45][47] In May 2022, Ferrand indicated their commitment for "a stable majority in the National Assembly", while Philippe specified that the program of Ensemble "is that of the Macron". Bayrou indicated that the parties would form a joint parliamentary group in the National Assembly, however Renaissance, MoDem, and Horizons each formed separate parliamentary groups following the legislative elections.[74] Some media sources consider it as a modern incarnation ofValéry Giscard d'Estaing'sUnion for French Democracy (UDF), founded in 1978.[75]
| Election year | Leader | First round | Second round | Seats | Role in government | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 2022 | Élisabeth Borne | 5,857,364 | 25.71 | 8,002,419 | 38.57 | 245 / 577 | Presidential minority |
| 2024 | Gabriel Attal | 6,820,261 | 21.27 | 6,692,358 | 24.53 | 159 / 577 | Presidential minority (2024) |
| Presidential minority (2024−2025) | |||||||
| Presidential minority (2025) | |||||||
| Presidential minority (2025–) | |||||||
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Nathalie Loiseau | 5,079,015 | 22.42 (#2) | 23 / 79 | New | RE |
| 2024 | Valérie Hayer | 3,589,114 | 14.56 (#2) | 13 / 81 |  10 |
| Election year | First round | Second round | Presidencies | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 2021 | 1,551,669 | 10.57 | 1,088,398 | 7.13 | 1 / 17 | 138 / 1,926 |
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The election 'confirms the fact that Ensemble (Macron's coalition) is now the centre-right,' says Mathieu Doiret of FRANCE 24's polling partners Ipsos, noting that the president's camp now draws most of its support from an elderly, centre-right constituency that previously voted for the mainstream conservative party, Les Républicains. Should Macron's coalition fail to win an outright majority, an alliance with the rump of the Républicains is the most likely outcome, Doiret added. 'We have a centre-right majority because elderly people hold the balance of power, because they vote twice as much as the young,' he said. 'That's why Angela Merkel stayed in power for so long in Germany and why Boris Johnson wins in the UK.'
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