Macron’s Strategist Says Goal Is to Reshape Fracturing EU Politics

Stephane Sejourne, French Presdient Emmanuel Macron's adviser and newly-named European election campaign director for the En Marche political party, poses after an interview with Reuters in Paris, France, October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

PARIS—Europe’s fragmenting political landscape is an opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to blow apart Brussels’ traditional left-right duopoly in next year’s European election, the newly appointed head of the French president’s EU campaign said.

In his first interview since his appointment as top strategist in Macron’s En Marche party, Stéphane Séjourné says the campaign will “shake up the system,” tapping into growing disaffection among the mainstream left and right.