It's back to school for Stanislas Guerini, boss of the presidential movement.

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  • The presidential movement made its political comeback in Amiens (Somme) this Friday, with the new slogan "going beyond" to build a coalition.

  • François Bayrou, the president of MoDem, an ally of LREM, spoke out to praise this “common house” to be built with other partners, including the center-right Agir party.

  • Emmanuel Macron's party wants to take advantage of this return to launch a communication campaign in the country, led by LREM activists, to defend the government's action.

From our special correspondent in Amiens (Somme),

With a few details, this return to school looks like the previous ones for La République en Marche.

The presidential movement organized a national meeting this Friday in Amiens.

We found the multicolored flags, sophisticated video spots to highlight local figures of the movement, and the heady electro music that walkers love, with in addition to hydroalcoholic gel and LREM branded masks, a health crisis requires.

Not much seems to have changed, and yet the management wants to instill a change, commanded by Emmanuel Macron.

New accessory for political gatherings: hydroalcoholic gel.

Here at the back-to-school campus of La République en Marche in Amiens #LREM pic.twitter.com/wUfD9Cr4fL

- Laure Cometti (@la_comete) September 11, 2020

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In a room fully heated by the General Delegate for Youth with Macron, Ambroise Méjean, Stanislas Guerini announces to the walkers (about 400 in the room, including a good part of the government, and hundreds connected) this new course.

"Municipalities made us pay the price of divisions", recalls the general delegate of LREM, behind a desk decked out with the slogan of the start of the school year, "building together".

This is why we must build a "common house, on the initiative of the President of the Republic".

LREM and the Modem will be “the historical pillars”, but this house will be “open”, and the patron of the marchers intends to welcome “Act, the radical party, and associations, elected officials, think tanks [think tanks ], citizens ”, so many people.

The goal is to "bring together those who want to rise, while everything in partisan life pushes us to lower ourselves," he says about what macronists call the old world.

More concretely, all the members of this coalition “will jointly take strategic decisions for regional and departmental elections” in March 2021. It could also serve as a support platform for Emmanuel Macron for a new presidential campaign in 2022, already in the minds of many walkers.

Bayrou by videoconference from Pau

As if to respond to criticism against his party, Stanislas Guerini also praised a recovery plan made up of “one-third” ideas “made in En Marche”, such as the hiring bonus for young people.

A militant campaign will be launched in a few days to re-mobilize the marchers and convince the French that "we have been up to this crisis", announces Stanislas Guerini.

At 19:38, François Bayrou appears on a giant screen, in a blue shirt in front of his library.

Health precaution requires, the boss of the MoDem did not finally come to Amiens, since he, like Jean Castex, was in contact with the director of the Tour de France contaminated by the coronavirus.

He too devotes his speech to this future coalition, and the union within the presidential majority.

“When we look to the future, when we talk about the present, we have exactly the same interpretations,” he assures us.

Pension reform coming back soon

The new High Commissioner for Planning also warns of the obstacles to creating this future coalition.

“We have to get along, we have to find esteem and mutual respect.

It's very complicated because political parties have a natural tendency to compete ”.

The proof, the MoDem group recently recruited three new deputies, from the LREM group.

Jean Castex, by videoconference at the re-entry university of La République en Marche, on September 11, 2020 in Amiens.

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Then it was Jean Castex's turn to speak by videoconference.

A special desk and background, in the colors of the LREM meeting, have been installed as if to make people forget that he is speaking from Matignon.

"Place the rally", launches the new leader of the majority, while the deputies elected their new president the day before, Christophe Castaner, during a very close ballot.

After having done the after-sales service of the government, praising the recovery plan and the management of the crisis, the Prime Minister also sings the chorus of this return.

He praises the “going beyond” and uses the formula of “common house”, calling for “enlarging” the majority.

Jean Castex also entrusts to parliamentarians the two "essential projects" of this parliamentary re-entry, the law on old age and autonomy, and the explosive reform of pensions.

At the end of his speech,

Marseille

and then the

Hymn to Joy

resonate in the auditorium, before the electro track sounds one last time.

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