Atlas / Organisations / Renaissance

Renaissance

Macronism · 2016– · France · Liberal Centrist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

+06ECmarket
−03CUpluralist
+04AUmonist
+06SCcentral
−03IDuniversal
−06CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Technocratic reform of the state and labour market, pro-European integration, neither left nor right by design.

Economic model

Pension age rise, labour market flexibility, corporate tax reduction, large industrial subsidy programmes.

Organisation of powers

Strong presidential executive; repeated use of constitutional provisions to pass legislation without a vote.

Reading note

Its authority score is unusually high for a liberal party and reflects the Fifth Republic's executive design as much as the party's own preferences.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +06

Coded +6: labour market flexibility and corporate tax reduction.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 2017 labour ordinances capped unfair dismissal compensation and decentralised bargaining.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored −03

Coded −3: socially liberal with a restrictive security and secularism posture.

  • Documented act or statuteLegislated constitutional protection for abortion in 2024 and end-of-life reform, alongside the 2021 separatism law.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +04

Coded +4: unusually high for a liberal party, reflecting the Fifth Republic's executive design.

  • Documented act or statuteArticle 49.3 was used to pass the 2023 pension reform without a vote, and over twenty times in the 2022–24 parliament.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +06

Coded +6: centralising domestically and strongly pro-European.

  • Programme textProgramme commitments to European strategic autonomy and to a stronger EU fiscal capacity.

ID · Rule of membership · scored −03

Coded −3: civic republicanism with a tightening migration regime.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 2024 immigration law was partly struck down by the constitutional council after being passed with RN support.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −06

Coded −6: constitutional throughout, using the constitution's own bypass provisions.

  • Documented act or statuteArticle 49.3 is a constitutional instrument, which is why the method score is negative and the authority score is not.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

France

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Renaissance. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/renaissance/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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