Overview
- Attal held his first major campaign meeting on Saturday, May 30, at the Parc des Expositions in Paris and framed the bid around optimism with the slogan «la force d'agir».
- He set out four flagship priorities — education, wages, borders and artificial intelligence — as the backbone of his policy platform.
- Renaissance is backing an organized operation including program working groups, a planned campaign app on June 6 and the mobilization of advisers and staff, though several senior party figures did not attend the Paris meeting and reported crowd-size figures vary.
- Attal positioned himself explicitly against the Rassemblement National and La France insoumise while competing for the same centrist electorate as Édouard Philippe, who has announced his own Paris meeting for July 5.
- The campaign moves now into a sustained phase of national meetings over the summer, with Attal's financial advantage likely to shape centre competition but internal party tensions and a pending July court ruling on RN's candidacy will affect the wider race.