Regional: the lists of the majority largely beaten, cold shower in the Macron camp

A hangover-like evening.

In the course of the results, the mines decomposed in the majority.

And for good reason.

Exit, LREM in Hauts-de-France despite the candidacies of a slew of ministers, including the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.

Also ejected from the LREM list in Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, led by deputy Bruno Bonnell.

Everywhere, the lists are left behind… In the Center-Val-de-Loire region, the Modem Minister for Relations with Parliament, Marc Fesneau, comes fourth.

In Ile-de-France, Laurent Saint-Martin manages to hold on with just over 11% of the vote.

In New Aquitaine, Geneviève Darrieussecq limits the damage with nearly 15% of the votes.

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"After four years, we are not there yet, we are not able to establish ourselves", lamented a government adviser on Sunday evening.

"LREM is a young political party and we had no outgoing presidents," said Christophe Castaner on France 2. In the ranks of the majority, we tried to put the defeat into perspective by pointing to the decline of the RN by compared to regional 2015. “The RN has not given you desire.

It is the direction of the policy which one carries out at the national level, welcomed on TF 1 the spokesman of the government Gabriel Attal.

The president is about to vote for… Xavier Bertrand

Sunday at 6 p.m., Emmanuel Macron was far from suspecting the scenario that was looming. During a conference call with the main heavyweights of the majority, he urged to do everything to block the road of the RN. "We must take the point of morality", told them the head of state. For his part, during this exchange, the boss of the Modem François Bayrou regretted that the regional were not shifted to avoid a context of strong abstention and drove the point home, recalling that he had pleaded in vain for the postal vote…

Ironically, with the withdrawal of Laurent Pietraszewski from the list in Hauts-de-France, the Head of State should therefore slip a ballot… Xavier Bertrand during the second round, next Sunday, in Le Touquet (Pas-de -Calais), where he votes.

"The president is attached to republican values," slips one of his relatives ... "There is no doubt that he will vote Bertrand", adds a government adviser.

"And next year, it will be Bertrand who will vote Macron in the second round", laughs one of his close friends.

Even Lecornu will have to go to the second round

Rare good news on the majority side: Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu has passed the 50% barrier with ease in departmental in the Eure.

But the very low participation forces to organize a second round on June 27, as provided by law.

Now it remains to turn the page.

“This is not a sanction vote against the president, wants to believe a walker.

Otherwise, there would have been a lot more mobilization.

There, it is the sign of a disinterest.

It's a bad evening for the whole political class ”.

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One thing is certain: the poor behavior of the majority party contrasts with the president's current popularity in the polls.

A paradox to which the Walkers cling.

"I am convinced that the results of the regional are disconnected from what will be the presidential election, reassures François Patriat, the president of the LREM group in the Senate.

Next year, it will be the queen election and the French will mobilize more than 60%.

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In the meantime, the Elysée is preparing this Monday to host the Music Festival in the main courtyard of the palace.

As for Emmanuel Macron, he must meet the professionals of the discotheque world in the morning.

Show must go on.