After François de Rugy and the former Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, Aurore Bergé is the third personality to have declared herself in view of the succession of Gilles Le Gendre as president of the LREM group at the National Assembly. The latter was criticized internally and should leave office at the start of the school year. The ballot is scheduled for September 9 and 10 to unveil the result at the opening of the LREM parliamentary days, organized in Amiens on the 10 and 11 of the same month.
Known close to Edouard Philippe
Like Christophe Castaner the day before, Aurore Bergé said she "wanted" to be president of the group, in a letter addressed to her colleagues at the end of the parliamentary session in the Assembly. "We have often doubted. Some have left, others no longer come: this must clearly and collectively challenge us," adds the candidate, referring in particular to the two new groups in the Assembly joined by LREM deputies.
"You know where I come from. But if I chose to leave the right, it was not so that the ideas of the conservative right would win" but to "build something else, other ideas, other methods, "added this former Juppeist known close to ex-Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. She also says she wants to defend a group "which erases its personal fights for the benefit of the only fights that are worthy: those of our collective".
Criticism of Gilles Le Gendre's presidency
Aurore Bergé is one of the deputies critical of the presidency of Gilles Le Gendre, weakened by the departures over time of elected members of the LREM group, until the formation in May of a ninth political group on the left wing then by a tenth on the right wing, causing LREM to lose the absolute majority.
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Gilles Le Gendre, 62, had been destabilized at the beginning of June after the leak in the press of a "note" to Emmanuel Macron on a ministerial reshuffle, in which he seemed to plead for a change of Prime Minister, then Edouard Philippe, and proposed a new government casting, something he denies.
With him, it is the entire management team of the group, some 25 MPs he had chosen, who will have to leave. This reorganization could coincide with changes at the head of the presidential party.