LREM deputies choose a new president this week

Christophe Castaner is the favorite to take the head of the LREM deputies, but he is contested.

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Who to take the lead of the LREM deputies until the end of the five-year term and give new impetus?

Six candidates are in the running, including the former Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, challenged in particular by Aurore Bergé, for this internal poll in mid-week which could hold some surprises.

The former Minister of the Ecological Transition François de Rugy is also in the ranks, left on the first in mid-July upon the announcement of the departure of Gilles Le Gendre.

The latter, weakened, bowed to the need for “new blood” for the “new path” traced by Emmanuel Macron.

After a series of defections, the group has only 279 members in the National Assembly.

Even if the post of president of the majority group, which requires both authority and proximity to the troops, is deemed "the worst of the Fifth Republic", it whets appetites.

Coralie Dubost, Patrice Anato and Rémy Rebeyrotte are also standing for the vote.

A six-party debate

After a “debate” next Tuesday between the six contenders, the first round will take place Wednesday afternoon, the second Thursday morning, electronically, for a mid-day proclamation, at the start of parliamentary days LREM near Amiens.

These days, around the priorities of the start of the school year in particular, will be closed on Friday by Jean Castex.

The ballot promises to be open, even if Christophe Castaner, a close friend of Emmanuel Macron, is often cited as a favorite.

Fresh back at the Palais Bourbon, the former minister says he wants to give back to the LREM group "the feeling of collective pride that accompanied Emmanuel Macron's campaign in 2017".

The situation of the group "today is not ideal, It is complicated, it is tense, it is serious", he said on Sunday in

Departures in the event of Aurore Bergé's election?

He is well known to the deputies, whom he was able to make himself appreciated at Place Beauvau.

Less when he was number one in the party at the start of the five-year term: "He cut us off from the movement," said a deputy.

The fact that he is an official candidate is both his strength and his weakness, for parliamentarians who are "fed up with being imposed names".

Aurore Bergé, ex-LR, is leading a “very offensive” campaign, according to several parliamentary sources: “She is a war machine and knows how to hit the mark,” said one of them.

But some see her as "stormy, confrontational" and predict departures if she is elected.

The Macronists "seek the woman", we observe within the group.

In this regard, Coralie Dubost, who called each of the deputies, should win votes for Aurore Bergé.

As for François de Rugy, who was president of the Assembly before becoming minister, he appears as a "unifier" and judges that "water has flowed under the bridges" since his resignation from the government after revelations about his lifestyle.

“Each of the candidates has his unsaid: lobster for Rugy;

Véran for Dubost (she is the companion of the Minister of Health, editor's note);

Bergé is on the right;

'Casta' is the president's friend, ”notes a tenor.

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