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The trajectory of the founders of young people with Macron says everything about the evolution of macronism
Politics – Another time. The “young people with Macron” are celebrating their 10 years of existence this Saturday, July 5, at the Winter Cirque in Paris around their president Ambroise Méjean and several distinguished guests. Élisabeth Borne or Gabriel Attal must speak in particular.
A little birthday sauté which will be an opportunity for the movement to reveal its new name. The members have had to choose in recent weeks between ” Progressive young people » et « Young people on », Reallation ultimately retained. The name of the Head of State must disappear from the poster, a symbol of the end of an era.
Ten years after the launch of the “JAM”, even before the creation “D’En Marche” in April 2016, the current embodied by Emmanuel Macron is more jostled than ever. To the point that some, even within the power coalition, question the ” fin Early macronism. The spirit of the beginnings, in any case, is no longer. And the trajectory of the founders of ” Young »Show it well.
What becomes of the beginning quartet
There are four of them, in 2015, to launch this adventure which will serve as a springboard for the presidential adventure, if not for support, to the one who is still at the time Minister of the Economy under François Hollande and Manuel Valls. A quarter of almost thirties, Pierre Person, Sacha Houlié, Florian Humez and Jean Gaborit, from the movement of young socialists.
The last two stayed for several years in cabinets. One at the Ministry of the Economy with Mounir Mahjoubi in particular, the other at the Élysée then Place Vendôme when Éric Dupond-Moretti was Minister of Justice. They went to the private sector in 2020.
A trajectory that has become frequent over the (many) ministerial reshuffles and in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron. Beyond Christophe Castaner, former Minister of the Interior (2018-2020) who recently hit the headlines by joining the controversial giant Shein, the Head of State gradually lost all his relatives from the beginning, or almost. The latest, Alexis Kohler, an irremovable secretary general of the Élysée since 2017 took the Tangena this spring to join the Société Générale.
Among young people, the journey of Sacha Houlié and Pierre Person is more eloquent, still, as for the trajectory of macronism, a current ” of political overcoming According to the initial promise, which derived to the right until governing today with Bruno Retailleau. The two former socialists became deputies in 2017, Sacha Houlié in Vienne, and Pierre Person in Paris. They embodied the left wing of the movement, each in their own way. Before leaving.
A “Slow and deep drift”
Having become number two of La République en Marche, Pierre Person slammed the door of management in 2020 before giving up the legislative elections two years later. During this rupture, the one who has long remained close to Emmanuel Macron, already scratched a movement that ” Don’t know anymore “Where he’s going,” mix the subjects without having frozen the bases “, And fails to exceed” Only security, immigration and secularism subjects. »
« Excess is not erasure. The original promise was to go beyond the cleavages, not to erase our differences », He explained for example in the columns of Monde. He left the political sphere after the end of his mandate, and launched (with some success) in the world of cryptocurrency. His pair, Sacha Houlié, for his part remained on the benches of the National Assembly … but not within the Macronist block.
After trying to animate the left wing of the movement during the first five -year term, then at the beginning of the second, when he was president of the law commission in the National Assembly, the elected representative of Vienne definitively left his camp after his re -election during the anticipated legislative elections of 2024.
« Dissolution ended the centrist adventure. There will inevitably be a return from the left and the right ”he explained to us at the beginning of the year, after the advent of the coalition with the Republicans. However, in this scheme, Renaissance has become “A branch of the right. »» Sacha Houlié even crossed the Rubicon this spring by joining Place Public, the party of Raphaël Glucksmann, one of the potential candidates on the left for the next presidential election. The opportunity to ultimately deplore the ” slow and deep drift From his camp. For him, not enough to blow out candles. Moreover, neither should be party at the winter circus.
