The number 2 of LREM resigns to create "an electric shock"

The number two of LREM Pierre Person announced Monday to resign from his functions, accusing the presidential party of no longer "producing new ideas", and calling on members of the management to do the same to create "an electric shock".

According to several sources interviewed by AFP, Marie Guevenoux, LREM ex-LR and ex-juppeist, should be inducted number 2 of the party this Monday evening during an executive office.

A party that has remained in its logic of 2017

Former PS, Pierre Person, who remains a member of the parliamentary group, explained in an interview with

chose to resign from his duties as deputy general delegate and no longer sit on the executive board "to breathe new life into the party".

The deputy for Paris wants "to create an electric shock", because according to him "cosmetic and dressing changes will not be enough" to change LREM, "remained in its logic of 2017, which was to carry the presidential project", and of which the organization is "folded in on itself".

He therefore invites "all those who want to build the successes of tomorrow to also leave their functions at the head of the party to write a new page".

Four years after the creation of the movement, Pierre Person considers that it "no longer produces new ideas" and must now "have its own raison d'être, without carrying only 'copy and paste' the message of the government".

Otherwise, he warns, LREM runs the risk of "disappearing".

LREM must "reinvent itself"

Asked whether he calls into question the management of the delegate general Stanislas Guerini, he notes that "a simple reorganization of management is planned" during the executive committee on Monday evening.

"This shows that the party has not taken the measure of the situation."

Should Stanislas Guerini leave his post?

"He has great human and managerial qualities and has spared no effort. The subject is not personal but political. At the time when the President of the Republic asked everyone to reinvent themselves, I do not believe that LREM can free himself from it, "answers Pierre Person, who will support Emmanuel Macron during the 2022 presidential election.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal reacted on Monday, saying that it was necessary "at least to hear the observation he made", while relativizing the scope of Pierre Person's decision.

Pierre Person "deplores the subject of internal functioning at LREM and he says well, it is not a surprise for me, that he remains 100% loyal to the majority, to the government and to the President of the Republic", argued Gabriel Attal on

.

"I am not telling you that it is perfect today (...), obviously that we have to succeed in establishing our local roots and that we find an internal organization method that allows everyone to participate, generate ideas, "but LREM is" a young party, "he added.