MACRON BACKERS DECRY ‘ARROGANT’ LEADERSHIP

PARIS Emmanuel Macron is facing his first internal revolt since his lightning rise to the French presidency after 100 members of his centrist movement announced they were stepping down due to its “arrogant” and “undemocratic” methods.

Macron swept to victory in May in part thanks to the help of an army of grassroots supporters, many with no political experience, who were promised they would all have a say in the way his movement would be run.

100 members of his party, say they are leaving, calling the party an “affront to the fundamental principles of democracy with an organizational style worthy of the Ancien Regime.”