“Where did the promise of 2016 go? » Attal takes the helm of Renaissance and offers inventory rights

He was the most applauded absentee of the day, in the immense reception room of the Pullmann Montparnasse hotel, in Paris. The “audacity” of President Emmanuel Macron has been praised several times, and his record has sometimes been praised. But above all it floated like an inventory scent, during the National Renaissance Council, this Sunday, December 8.

It is not so much in the speech of Élisabeth Borne, former Prime Minister elected this Sunday president of the National Council of the party, that we should read the desire to turn the page. Rather in that of Gabriel Attal, who proposed to write a new one, taking the audience as witness, after having been elected secretary general of the movement with 94.9% of the votes (he was the only candidate). “If we are here, it is thanks to Emmanuel Macron. I know what I owe him and what I owe you,” begins the former Prime Minister, bringing the room to its feet.

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Stéphane Séjourné, who handed over to Gabriel Attal

Then, evoking the French who doubt, the middle class who feel “despised”, he cuts the political cord linking him to the head of state. “Yes, there is a way out of the blockage. Unravel the country. What I am proposing to you is to launch the Estates General and the largest mobilization since the Great March of 2016. From mid-January, each central committee will have to meet throughout France to answer the question “Where did we go?” the promise of 2016?''. I would ask to invite the activists who left the movement to find out why and draw the consequences. We will publish the results and they will be visible. »

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A right of inventory, neither more nor less, while the head of state is in office until spring 2027. “A right of inventory on the functioning, pleads Stéphane Séjourné, former boss of the party, to Paris Match. But the right to inventory is not against it, it’s for it. We have to reinvent the method, we have always considered, including with the president, that we had the duty to reinvent things, to put ourselves back in the context of the reality of the country. We can take stock and prepare for the future. Everyone will say ''It's against the president'', but that's not the case at all, I think. »

2016 was a rupture, 2025 will be as much a reinvention as a start.

Gabriel Attal

“Reconstruction will come from the truth,” adds Gabriel Attal from the platform. We have to face reality. Between now and March, we will organize a large gathering with the verdict of our activists, to set strong lines and prepare for the future. »

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He also expressed a desire: “Reconnect with audacity without fear of going far” and a course to “rebuild everything”. “Work is at the center of everything. I want us to be the party of workers to get the French out of the minimum wage. […] We must also not give up on secularism because there is only one law, that of the Republic. […] Liberty, equality, fraternity, there has never been a better program…”

For the method, Renaissance will launch in the first quarter of 2025, thematic conventions, on the economy first, which is “one of our strengths, I am thinking of the reduction in unemployment and reindustrialization, but whose progress is fragile , recognized the new boss. I want to make France the most prosperous country in Europe by 2030. By acting on public services, taxation, work, the four-day week, why not, let's look at everything, let's address everything. It is a French New Deal that I am proposing. »

The second priority on which these thematic conventions will work is “the expectation of authority and firmness of our compatriots. Gérald (Darmanin) acted without trembling. But we have to get out of our comfort zones. I will begin a European tour among our neighbors who have changed their approach on the subject. » Finally, Renaissance wants to propose an ecological transition that is “truly effective, truly useful, which improves life and offers solutions”.

The former Prime Minister also mentioned an activist campaign also launched at the beginning of 2025, to “be active on the ground with the French. […] » Before concluding that he would be “always free”, like putting on the dolphin costume… “2016 was a rupture, 2025 will be as much a reinvention as a start. »