June Elections: Gaullist Republicans and Rem Candidates

june elections: Macron gets his first chance at demonstrating his commitment to renewal May 11 when he announces the 577 candidates for the June elections to the French National Assembly, according to Rabble. In April 2016, as Macron began building his movement En Marche! -- renamed La R publique En Marche REM to contest the elections -- he issued an Internet call for candidates. Instead of politics as a struggle between left and right, workers and capitalists, Socialists and Gaullist Republicans, the forces of change versus the status quo, Emmanuel Macron sees opposition between progressives and conservatives renewal versus continued sterile conflict. He has indicated that one-half of REM candidates will be drawn from civil society -- i.e. they will not have held elected office at any level. The promise of injecting new blood into a political system dominated by long-standing office holders was an important part of building the Macron candidacy from nothing a year ago, to winning top spot in the first round of presidential voting, albeit with less than 25 per cent of the vote. Macron has also pledged to uphold gender equality in selecting candidates. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.