On the evening of Thursday, July 31, the 33,000 members and senior officials of Renaissance, Emmanuel Macron’s party, received an email from the party’s secretary general, former prime minister Gabriel Attal. The message contained nearly 10 questions that addressed the party’s values, the movement’s name recognition among its supporters and a stated desire to change its name. The impetus for this initiative came from an internal survey the party commissioned at the beginning of 2025, which revealed that barely a third of the party’s voters recognized the name Renaissance, while the La France Insoumise (LFI, radical left) and the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) parties were identified by more than 70% of respondents.
This name change would be the third in the party’s nine years of existence, after En Marche! in April 2016, thus named so its initials would match those of Macron, its founder, La République En Marche, in August 2017, and Renaissance, in September 2022. Even if no change has yet been confirmed, three of the party’s deputy general secretaries – whose identities are still anonymous – are set to work on the issue over the summer. This process will continue until online consultations, conducted with the party’s activists and senior officials, end on August 17. The questionnaire’s results will then be discussed by the party’s executive committee on August 25 before a decision is made. If a name change were to be decided, it would be announced at the party’s autumn rally, which will be held in the northern city of Arras on September 20.
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