(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 12 - The majority of Emmanuel Macron trembles: the "tribune" of the radical gauche, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, collected - in the first round of the legislative - more votes with his Nupes coalition (between 25 and 26 , 2% according to polling institutes) compared to the governing parties united under the label Ensemble!
(25-25.8%).
Quote 341 - as in Macron's first mandate - seems very distant today: the gap for the government is between 275 and 310 seats according to projections, with the absolute majority at 289. Nupes, the united gauche, at 190-210 seats.
Excited, his voice low for once, the seventy-year-old Mélenchon, who managed to bring together under the banner of LaFrance Insoumise from the Socialists to the Greens, to the Communists, launched "an appeal to the people": "For the first time - he said - a president who he wins the elections, he fails to win the legislature. The president is beaten, defeated. Now I appeal to the people, pour yourself into the polls next Sunday ".
With a turnout never so low in history, between 47 and 47.5%, a new negative record, the key to victory is in fact in the "reserves of votes" on which each party can count.
(HANDLE).