République en Marche!
On April 6, 2016, Emmanuel Macron launched the movement "En Marche!" Macron stepped down as an economy minister in August 2016 and announced his decision to run for the French president in November. In his hometown in Amiens with the will to "rebound from below" and a certainty: "This movement will be what we will do." From the first day, it depended only on the commitment of each person. Three months after its launch, on 12 July 2016, En Marche! brought together 4,000 people at the Mutualité in Paris. This first great gathering of the members and supporters of the movement carries the theme of commitment.
On December 10, 2016 in Paris, Porte de Versailles, Emmanuel Macron presented his vision of work and unveiled his proposals before 15,000 people. Driven by the energy of its members, a new political dynamic is expressed every day on the ground. The local committees innovate, propose, act on the whole territory. There are representatives of the movement at the departmental level. Each coordinator coordinates in particular the actions of the local committees of his department.
Honesty, equality, renewal, political pluralism and consistency were proclaimed by Macron in January as the key principles of En Marche! movement at the parliamentary election. On March 2, Macron unveiled his political program. The 32-page document included 96 clauses with the proposals in six main areas — culture and education, the labor community, economic modernization, security, democracy renewal and international policy. The program suggested raising the unemployment benefits, improving the life-long learning programs and strengthening the agreements between companies and trade unions.
The former economy minister pledged in his election program to retain the 35-hour working week and bring unemployment down from 9.7 percent to 7 percent over the next five years. The politician spoke for reducing the civil servants number by 120,000 in the course of the presidential term and increasing the number of teachers in the country by 4,000-5,000. Apart from this, Macron’s presidential program proclaimed the need for the additional 10,000 policemen to ensure the public’s safety.
Macron named war against terrorism inside and outside France a priority in the country’s policies and called for an international anti-terrorist "road map." On May 7, Macron won the second round of the French presidential election with 66.1 percent of the votes.
Emmanuel Macron won France's presidential election with an unapologetically pro-European message. The new En Marche (On the Move) movement arrived on the scene and crushed the old right-left party system with a single blow. That same man summoned a cabinet there that brings together members from every political camp and generation - career politicians and outsiders.
On May 8, the president-elect announced the renaming of En Marche! movement for La Republique En Marche. Apart from this, he resigned as a party leader and Catherine Barbaroux took over the leadership as the movement’s interim head. Richard Ferrand is the secretary general of the REM party. On May 11, Ferrand said 214 men and 214 women were selected for the first list of the party’s parliamentary candidates 52 percent of whom had never been previously elected to a political office.
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