Together (coalition)

Ensemble !
Ensemble !
Leader	Richard Ferrand (RE)
Secretary-General	Stanislas Guerini (RE)
Vice Presidents	François Bayrou (MoDem); Édouard Philippe (Horizons);
Founded	29 November 2021 (as Ensemble Citoyens)
Political position	Centre to centre-right
Members	Renaissance; Democratic Movement; Horizons; Radical Party; En Commun; Progressive Federation; Republican Refoundation;
Colours	Black; White;
Senate	46 / 348
National Assembly	250 / 577
European Parliament	23 / 79
Website
	ensemblecitoyens.fr
	Politics of France; Political parties; Elections;

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.

^ "Présidentielle : la majorité s'affiche unie en lançant ' Ensemble Citoyens ! '". Les Echos (in French). 29 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
^ Opalín, León (30 May 2022). "El débil triunfo de Macron y la Unión Europea". El Financiero (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "France: LREM devient "Renaissance", au sein d'une confédération pour les législatives". RFI (in French). 5 May 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "France's old duopoly is officially dead". UnHerd. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. In first place, on 24% of the vote, is Ensemble Citoyens (Citizens Together) which is the centrist alliance dominated by Macron's party
^ "Macron tried to make the center the biggest force in French politics. A land-grab by fringe parties has been the result". CNN. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. While his centrist alliance, Ensemble!, took the largest share in Sunday's second round of elections – winning 245 out of 577 seats ...
^ "France: Macron to hold talks with opposition parties over hung parliament". Deutsche Welle. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. Negotiations will seek to "build solutions to serve the French" with Macron's centrist Ensemble (ENS) alliance taking the ruling role.
^ "Will 'drifting' Macron need conservatives to save his majority?". France 24. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. The French parliamentary elections' first round on Sunday put Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble group barely ahead of the leftist...
^ Bloch, Michel (9 June 2022). "Législatives : voici les quatre scénarios possibles au soir du second tour". Le Journal du dimanche (in French). Retrieved 13 June 2022. 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).
^ "Macron coalition, leftwing bloc neck and neck in first round of French elections". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022. 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.'
^ "Macron's bloc falls short of absolute majority, leftist coalition second, large gains for far right". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

[1] "Présidentielle : la majorité s'affiche unie en lançant ' Ensemble Citoyens ! '". Les Echos (in French). 29 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.

[2] Opalín, León (30 May 2022). "El débil triunfo de Macron y la Unión Europea". El Financiero (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[3] "France: LREM devient "Renaissance", au sein d'une confédération pour les législatives". RFI (in French). 5 May 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

[4] "France's old duopoly is officially dead". UnHerd. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. In first place, on 24% of the vote, is Ensemble Citoyens (Citizens Together) which is the centrist alliance dominated by Macron's party

[5] "Macron tried to make the center the biggest force in French politics. A land-grab by fringe parties has been the result". CNN. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. While his centrist alliance, Ensemble!, took the largest share in Sunday's second round of elections – winning 245 out of 577 seats ...

[6] "France: Macron to hold talks with opposition parties over hung parliament". Deutsche Welle. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. Negotiations will seek to "build solutions to serve the French" with Macron's centrist Ensemble (ENS) alliance taking the ruling role.

[7] "Will 'drifting' Macron need conservatives to save his majority?". France 24. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022. The French parliamentary elections' first round on Sunday put Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble group barely ahead of the leftist...

[8] Bloch, Michel (9 June 2022). "Législatives : voici les quatre scénarios possibles au soir du second tour". Le Journal du dimanche (in French). Retrieved 13 June 2022. 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).

[9] "Macron coalition, leftwing bloc neck and neck in first round of French elections". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022. 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.'

[10] "Macron's bloc falls short of absolute majority, leftist coalition second, large gains for far right". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 19 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

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