Activists approved 83% of the new leadership, 87% of the new party statutes and 96% of the body of values ​​drawn up at the end of August.

Some 25,000 to 26,000 "certified" members were called upon to vote.

The party did not communicate the number of members who took part in these three votes.

"Unity and overcoming is what I want to give tonight," said Emmanuel Macron in a video broadcast at Carrousel.

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"We were able to reconcile so many women and men who until then did not work together" and "it is united and gathered that we are going to open a new chapter in the political life of our country", also declared the leader of State.

But "without unity, the extremes will prevail", nevertheless warned Emmanuel Macron, now honorary president of Renaissance.

Present at the meeting, Elisabeth Borne once again pleaded for the political "overcoming" between the right and the left advocated by the Head of State.

"I will also be there to ensure the unity of the majority" which "will only succeed if it is based on its three pillars", also said the Prime Minister in reference to Horizons, the party of Édouard Philippe, present in the Carrousel, and François Bayrou's MoDem who, expected, was absent.

In an interview with Le Parisien, posted online shortly before this LREM congress, Mr. Bayrou said he was "opposed to the forced passage" of the inclusion of a pension reform in the Social Security Financing Bill. , mentioned Monday by Emmanuel Macron.

This majority will succeed "if it advances as one block and faces together", insisted Ms. Borne on Saturday, while these three allies only hold a relative majority in the Assembly.

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Former collaborator of Mr. Macron, president of the Renaissance group in the European Parliament, Stéphane Séjourné will be surrounded by deputy general secretaries.

Among these, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire will be in charge of ideas, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin of training.

The Agir et Territoires de Progrès (TDP) parties will have the rank of associated parties in this new entity.

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