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Ensemble ! | |
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| Leader | Stéphane Séjourné (RE) |
| Secretary-General | Stanislas Guerini (RE) |
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| Founded | 29 November 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11-29) (as Ensemble Citoyens) |
| Political position | Centretocentre-right |
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46 / 348
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| National Assembly |
250 / 577
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| European Parliament |
23 / 79
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| https://ensemble-2024.fr/ | |
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Together (French: Ensemble, stylised as Ensemble !) is a liberal political coalition in France.[1][2] Formed in November 2021 as Ensemble Citoyens,[3] it includes Renaissance (RE, formerly known as En Marche), Democratic Movement (MoDem), Horizons, En commun, and the Progressive Federation. The coalition included the parties Agir and Territories of Progress (TDP) until they were merged into the rebranded Renaissance. Ensemble has mainly been described as being centrist,[4][5][6][7] and sometimes as centre-right[8][9][10] on the political spectrum.
François Bayrou, the leader of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) has previously proposed the formation of a coalition that would include centrist and centre-right parties. In November 2021, president of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, accepted his proposal and together they had formed Ensemble Citoyens. Besides the Democratic Movement and Renaissance, Agir was also its founding member.[11][12][13] In the following month, they were joined by the Radical Party, Horizons, Territories of Progress, and En Commun.[14][15]
From its foundation in November, the coalition has been headed by Ferrand as its leader, Bayrou and Édouard Philippe as vice-presidents, and Stanislas Guerini as secretary-general.[16][17] Jean Castex has also affiliated himself with the coalition.[18] Philippe suspended its participation in the coalition on 14 January 2022, although, four days later he had announced that his party was reinstated into the coalition.[19][20] In April, LREM announced that it would change its party name to "Renaissance", and a month later, the name of the coalition was shortened to just Ensemble.[21][22] The Progressive Federation joined the coalition in May 2022.[23]
| Party | Abbreviation | Main ideology | Position | Leader | ||
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Renaissance | RE | Liberalism | Centre | Stéphane Séjourné | |
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Democratic Movement | MoDem | Christian democracy | Centretocentre-right | François Bayrou | |
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Horizons | Horizons | Liberal conservatism | Centre-right | Édouard Philippe | |
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Union of Democrats and Independents (since 2024) | UDI | Liberalism | Centretocentre-right | Jean-Christophe Lagarde | |
| Radical Party | PRV | Liberalism | Centre | Laurent Hénart | ||
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En Commun | EC | Green politics | Centre-left | Philippe Hardouin [fr] | |
| Progressive Federation | FP | Social democracy | François Rebsamen | |||
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Republican Refoundation | RR |
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Jean-Yves Autexier | ||
The coalition aimed to bring the presidential majority of Emmanuel Macron together in order to present its joint candidates for the 2022 French legislative election.[11][13] In May 2022, Ferrand indicated their commitment for "a stable majority in the National Assembly", while Philippe specified that the program of Ensemble "is that of the Macron". Bayrou indicated that the parties would form a joint parliamentary group in the National Assembly, however Renaissance, MoDem, and Horizons each formed separate parliamentary groups following the legislative elections.[24] Some media sources consider it as a modern incarnation of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy (UDF), founded in 1978.[25]
| Election year | Leader | First round | Second round | Seats | Role in government | ||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| 2022 | Richard Ferrand | 5,857,364 | 25.71 | 8,002,419 | 38.57 |
245 / 577
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Presidential minority |
| Election year | Leader | Votes | % | Seats |
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| 2019 | Nathalie Loiseau | 5,079,015 | 22.42% |
23 / 79
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| 2024 | Valérie Hayer | 3,589,114 | 14.56% |
13 / 81
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| Election year | First round | Second round | Presidencies | Seats | ||
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| 2021 | 1,551,669 | 10.57 | 1,088,398 | 7.13 |
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In first place, on 24% of the vote, is Ensemble Citoyens (Citizens Together) which is the centrist alliance dominated by Macron's party
While his centrist alliance, Ensemble!, took the largest share in Sunday's second round of elections – winning 245 out of 577 seats ...
Negotiations will seek to "build solutions to serve the French" with Macron's centrist Ensemble (ENS) alliance taking the ruling role.
The French parliamentary elections' first round on Sunday put Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble group barely ahead of the leftist...
C'est sans aucun doute les élections législatives les plus indécises depuis l'instauration du quinquennat et l'inversion du calendrier électoral en 2002. Le premier tour de la présidentielle a révélé la présence de trois blocs dans le pays (un bloc macroniste de centre-droit, un bloc d'extrême-droite et un bloc de gauche).
The election 'confirms the fact that Ensemble (Macron's coalition) is now the centre-right,' says Mathieu Doiret of FRANCE 24's polling partners Ipsos, noting that the president's camp now draws most of its support from an elderly, centre-right constituency that previously voted for the mainstream conservative party, Les Républicains. Should Macron's coalition fail to win an outright majority, an alliance with the rump of the Républicains is the most likely outcome, Doiret added. 'We have a centre-right majority because elderly people hold the balance of power, because they vote twice as much as the young,' he said. 'That's why Angela Merkel stayed in power for so long in Germany and why Boris Johnson wins in the UK.'
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