While Stéphane Séjourné, until then Chair of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, was appointed French Minister of Foreign Affairs on Thursday 11 January, following a reshuffle of the government by French President Emmanuel Macron, the race for the Renaissance presidential party’s nomination has been relaunched for the European elections.
With only five months to go before the elections, this decision comes as a surprise to many, since Mr Séjourné, who is also...