Two former Renaissance departmental officials announced this week their resignation from the presidential party.
In a press release dated November 22, Martine Madelaine and Sélim Denoyelle argue for a “difficult but necessary” decision, justified by the “ideological drift” taken by the movement on a national scale: a “right-wing shift initiated in 2022 and fully assumed since the dissolution, in total contradiction with the choice of the French.
At the beginning of macronism
Supporting Emmanuel Macron since spring 2016, Martine Madelaine, deputy mayor in La Rochelle and unsuccessful candidate in the 2022 legislative elections, became LREM's departmental referent in 2020. In November 2022, Sélim Denoyelle, campaign director for the regional elections of 2019, presidential and legislative elections of 2022, took over, acting as interim for a few weeks. He was supposed to take over the departmental presidency of the movement in October 2023, but differences with Katherine Chipoff caused an internal election which resulted in the latter's reappointment.
Affirming their attachment “to the values of justice and progress”, Martine Madelaine and Sélim Denoyelle say they now want to focus their commitment locally, alongside the diverse left-wing mayor of La Rochelle, Jean-François Fountaine.
