En Marche!
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En Marche !
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| President | Catherine Barbaroux (Acting) |
| General Secretary | Richard Ferrand |
| Founder | Emmanuel Macron |
| Founded | 6 April 2016 |
| Headquarters | 99, rue de l'Abbé-Groult 75015 Paris |
| Membership | 323,773 claimed adherents |
| Ideology |
Big tent Social liberalism Third Way |
| Political position | Centre |
| National Assembly |
24 / 577
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| European Parliament |
1 / 74
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| Website | |
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En Marche! (French: [ɑ̃ maʁʃ]; English: "Forward!", "Onward!", Working Republic or "On The Move!"), which is running candidates in the 2017 legislative elections as La République En Marche!, is a social-liberal political party in France founded on 6 April 2016 by Emmanuel Macron, a former Minister of Economy and Finance and the current President of France.
Macron considers En Marche! to be a progressive movement, uniting both the left and the right. The initials of the name of the party are the same as the initials of Macron's name.
En Marche! was founded on 6 April 2016 in Amiens by Emmanuel Macron, with the help of political advisor Ismaël Emelien.
The party intends to run candidates in the 2017 French legislative election, in order to form a majority in the National Assembly. It will not form any alliances except with MoDem, another centrist party. For the candidates of the party, half will be from civil society and the other half having held previous political office. Macron previously said the legislative candidates would have to leave the Socialist Party before they could join En Marche! in the election. However, En Marche! spokesperson Christophe Castaner later said they could stay in the Socialist Party as long as they supported Macron. Moreover, spokesperson Jean-Paul Delevoye said the members of civil society could be mayors or members of regional councils and departmental councils.
En Marche! plans to run candidates in all 577 constituencies, of which at least half are planned to be from civil society – the other half having previously held political office – and half women. No "double investiture" will be permitted, though the original requirement of prospective candidates to leave their previous political party was waived by Macron on 5 May. In addition to those parameters, he specified in his initial press conference on 19 January that he would require that candidates demonstrate "probity" (disqualifying any prospective candidates with a criminal record), "political plurality" (representing the threads of the movement), and "efficacy". Those wishing to seek the investiture of En Marche! were required to sign up online, and the movement received nearly 15,000 applications. For nominations sought by those in the political world, the popularity, establishment, and ability to appear in the media of applicants are also considered, with the most difficult cases adjudicated by Macron himself. To represent themselves under the label of En Marche!, however, outgoing deputies must decide to leave the Socialist Party (PS) or the Republicans (LR).
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