Pierre Person in Paris on June 17, 2019. -

Emma Prosdocimi

The Republic on the move is in a very bad way.

While the presidential party comes out on Sunday from six very bad partial legislative elections, suffers from defections in its group to the National Assembly and sees the growing rise of the Modem's influence, it must now face the resignation of its number two.

And this last charge is violent.

Accusing LREM of no longer "producing new ideas" and calling on members of management to do like him to create "an electric shock", Pierre Person announced on Monday his retirement from his duties.

"An activist among the militants"

“Today, to breathe new life into the party, I am choosing to resign from my post at LRM management, leaving my post as deputy general delegate and no longer sitting on the executive board.

I am becoming an activist again among the militants and obviously remain a member of the parliamentary group, ”he announced in an interview with

Le Monde

.

According to him "cosmetic and dressing changes will not be enough to change the party", remained in his logic of 2017, which was to carry the presidential project.

In 2018, I made the choice of the unit of my family.

Today, the party needs a new lease of life.



It is to initiate this burst that I decide today to leave my functions within the movement - https://t.co/WYKyviylMG.

- Pierre PERSON (@Pierr_Person) September 21, 2020

Four years after the creation of the movement, Pierre Person considers that it “no longer produces new ideas.

The work in this area is insufficient, ”he believes, referring to an organization“ folded in on itself ”and warning of the risk of“ disappearing ”if it becomes“ like the old political formations ”.

“If he wants to be part of the long term, to exist in the" common house "being created with our allies, he must better define what he represents.

It must have its own raison d'être, without carrying only in “copy and paste” the message of the government ”, insists the deputy.

Charge against Stanislas Guerini

With these statements, all eyes will logically turn to the boss of LREM.

Asked whether he called into question the management of the delegate general Stanislas Guerini, Pierre Person notes that "a simple reorganization of the direction is planned, Monday evening, during a meeting of the executive board.

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 moment when the President of the Republic asked everyone to reinvent themselves, I do not believe that LRM can free itself from it ”.

Even if Pierre Person reaffirms that he will support Emmanuel Macron during the 2022 presidential election, it is not certain that he will be allowed to do so in the foreground after this interview.

The ball is now on the side of his party leadership.

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  • Resignation