Gabriel Attal announces that he wants to "offer a path" to the French for the 2027 presidential election

In a speech reminiscent of a pre-election campaign, the secretary general of the Renaissance party, Gabriel Attal, stated on Saturday, July 5, that he wanted to "offer a path" to the French for the 2027 presidential election . "I want to offer the French a new collective adventure. Let's set off together," he declared during a rally in Paris to mark the tenth anniversary of the Youth with Macron (JAM) movement.

"On July 5, 2025, I want to propose that we lay the first milestones of a new path for our youth and for our country (...) , a path of hope, a path of happiness, a path for the youth of France and for our country," declared the former Prime Minister in front of figures from Macronie, including the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the Minister of Education and former Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne.

"This will be your election and I swear to you that I will do everything to lead you to victory in two years," Mr. Attal said during this meeting at which the JAM changed its name to become the Jeunes en marche (JEM).

Saying he was "scandalized by the silence of some and the denial of others" on ecological issues, he referred to the recent altercation via the media between the Minister of the Interior and President of the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, who is in favor of stopping subsidies for renewable energy, and the Minister of Ecology, Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Renaissance), who attacked the "populism" of the tenant of Place Beauvau.

"Since LR and RN are declaring war on ecology, I tell them that we will be in their way," warned Mr. Attal. "We cannot, when we are in Vendée, create departmental agencies on renewable energies and finance them and, in Paris, because it is fashionable, say that we are against renewable energies," he insisted.

Emmanuel Macron, a surprise guest at the meeting, announced to the WEG that he would "need them in two years, in five years, in ten years." The president had previously called on his camp to remain "united," "responsible," and to act. "If in the next two years, we spend our time talking about 2027, doing nothing, being in calculations, being in divisions, it will be none of us in two years," he said.

The president of the JEM, Ambroise Méjean, announced on Saturday the name change of this organization created ten years ago, saying he was convinced that "Macronism is destined to endure." "This name was a consensus since it was adopted by nearly 70% of the votes out of 2,500 voters, compared to 30% for the "Young Progressives," affirmed in an interview with Le Parisien the man who will leave his post at the end of September.